Book launch event: Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave by Taeyoung Kim
The CRCC will be hosting a book launch event on Wednesday 26th November for member Taeyoung Kim‘s recent publication: Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave: The South Korean Government’s Instrumentalisation of Popular Culture.
Event details:
When: Wednesday November 26th, 16.00-17.30
Where: U005 Brockington, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Epinal Way LE11 3TU and on Teams using the link below
This will be a hybrid event chaired by Dominic Wring, Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University. The author will be in conversation with Hye-Kyung Lee, Professor of Cultural Policy at King’s College London.
Refreshments will be provided.
Publication details:
Published by Routledge, this timely and important book sheds light on how the South Korean state reappropriates the doctrines of neoliberal globalisation to serve its interests in instrumentalising culture.
Cultural Policies in the Era of the Korean Wave explores how the state instrumentalises cultural industries, despite the bulk of their production and delivery mechanisms becoming subject to the market logic and foreign stakeholders, through an in-depth study of the South Korean government’s cultural industry policies.
Drawing on interviews with policymakers and producers in the Korean film, music, and television industries, it investigates how the government’s policy schemes—ranging from funding programmes and public agencies established to promote cultural industries to the blacklisting of those opposing the administration’s political agendas—demonstrate the government’s strong desire to influence cultural production. The findings highlight how the state retains political power to instrumentalise cultural products, even as market forces shape production mechanisms and genre characteristics that have become increasingly transnational.
This book sheds new light on how the state approves and reappropriates the doctrines of neoliberal globalisation to serve its interests in instrumentalising culture, making it relevant for scholars and students in the areas of media and cultural policy, media and cultural industries, global media, and Asian studies.
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