| Contents note: |
Introduction: Indexing Korean popular culture / by Kyung Hyun Kim -- The world in a love letter / by Boduerae Kwon -- Fisticuffs, high kicks, and colonial histories : the ambivalence of modern Korean identity in narrative comics / by Kyu Hyun Kim -- It all started with a bang : the role of PC bangs in South Korea's cybercultures / by Inkyu Kang -- As seen on the internet : the recap as translation in English-language K-drama fandoms / by Regina Yung Lee -- Regimes within regimes : film and fashion cultures in the Korean 1950s / by Steven Chung -- The quasi patriarch: Kim Sŭng-ho and South Korean postwar movies / by Kelly Jeong -- The partisan, the worker, and the hidden hero : popular icons in North Korean film / by Travis Workman -- Face value : the star as genre in Bong Joon-ho's Mother / by Michelle Cho -- Bend it like a man of Chosun : sports nationalism and colonial modernity of 1936 / by Jung Hwan Cheon -- "She became our strength" : female athletes and (trans)national desires / by Rachael Miyung Joo -- Young musical love of the 1930s / by Min-Jung Son -- Birth, death, and resurrection of group sound rock / by Pil Ho Kim and Hyunjoon Shin -- The popularity of individualism : the Seo Taiji phenomenon in the 1990s / by Roald Maliangkay -- Girls' generation? : gender, (dis)empowerment, and K-pop / by Stephen Epstein (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) with James Turnbull (Dongseo) -- South Korean advertising as popular culture / by Olga Fedorenko -- The global Hansik campaign and commodification of Korean cuisine / by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka -- Back Seung Woo's blow up (2005-2007) : touristic fantasy, photographic desire, and catastrophic North Korea / by Sohl Lee. |
