South Korean Literature in the Age of the Korean Wave:Soft Power, Literary Value, and Cultural Policy in South Korea

• 발행기관: 한국학술연구원
• 저자명: John Lie
• 간행물 정보: 『Korea Observer』Vol 44, No 4, 647~668쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 정치외교학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.12.30

영문 초록

South Korean popular culture has generated a great deal of interest abroad, making South Korea into a potentially major soft power. In spite of the global dissemination of South Korean popular music and television drama, there is a genre that remains relatively unknown abroad: literature. This paper seeks to explain the reasons why South Korean literature is not part of the Korean Wave. In addition, the paper points to the potential problems of cultural policy that seeks to export “culture”: global popularity may very well vitiate cultural content.

목차

Abstact

I. Introduction

II. Vicissitudes of Virtuosity

III. Form versus Substance

IV. The Fickleness of Fortuna and Fama

V. Cultural Policy?

References

키워드

South Korea Korean Wave South Korean Literature Culture Eurocentrism Ethnocentrism Popular Culture Cultural Policy Cultural Globalization Soft Power Globalization