Fuel for South Korea’s “Global Dreams Factory”: The Desires of Parents Whose Children Dream of Becoming K-pop Stars

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: Swee Lin Ho
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 43, No 3, 471~502쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.09.30

영문 초록

This paper is an ethnographic account of the desires and struggles of some parents in South Korea who invest - financially and emotionally - in their children’s dream of becoming K-pop stars in the hope of securing a better future for their young, and repositioning themselves more favorably in an extremely restrictive and competitive environment. It is based on personal interviews with 15 mothers and 8 fathers, and participation-observation of young South Koreans’activities in a private academy where they receive “professional training.” This study contends that these parents are strategically benchmarking and re-benchmarking their place within a rapidly changing society by following shifting trends of pursuits that have emerged as new measures of success and status, so that they would not be “left behind” by a rapidly globalizing society.

목차

Abstact

I. Introduction

II. Constructing K-pop’s “Global Success”

III. Bearing the Cost of the Nation’s “Global Dreams Factory”

IV. Discourses on Parents’ Dreams of Having a Filial Superstar Child

V. Conclusion

References

키워드

Family Gender Social Mobility K-pop The Korean Wave Popular Culture