Cultural politics in the South Korean cultural industries: confrontations between state-developmentalism and neoliberalism

Ryoo, Woongjae; Jin, Dal Yong

doi:10.1080/10286632.2018.1429422

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“…Konsep Korean Wave ini berawal dari strategi pemerintah Korea Selatan dalam rangka membangun identitas budaya Korea Selatan secara internasional dengan kebijakan luar negeri Korea Selatan For A Global Korea (Mustafha & Razak, 2020). Kebijakan ini memiliki sepuluh agenda pokok yang salah satunya adalah pembangunan dan penyebaran budaya Korea Selatan secara global melalui Korean Wave (Ryoo & Jin, 2018).…”

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Rosana

2022

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The Hallyu phenomenon is a Korean Wave phenomenon created due to the increasingly sophisticated mass media technology. Hallyu influences global civilization with various mass media products, including a Korean drama series with the theme of romance. The romance promoted in this Korean drama cannot be separated from what Jean Baudrillard calls Simulacra (false reality), which will later become a hyperreality when the pseudo-reality is believed to be more accurate than reality itself. The Korean drama series 'A Business Proposal' is an example of a drama that presents a form of utopian romance (pseudo-romantic). The concept of romanticism is built to give rise to a new concept of romanticism that is very different from the reality of romanticism. A Business Proposal presents a new concept of romanticism with an image as an ideal figure, aspects of romantic nature, hierarchical aspects of romanticism, aspects of romantic absurdity, and motivational aspects of romanticism. This study focuses on the analysis of the Korean drama A Business Proposal which was released in February 2022, in the perspective of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra Theory, especially on the concept of romanticism or romantic relationships. The results show that the Korean drama A Business Proposal, wrapped in the main theme of romance, presents various kinds of utopian realities so that it can be said to be a drama full of avalanches of romantic Simulacra that creates a utopian romance. Fenomena Hallyu merupakan fenomena Gelombang Korea yang tercipta karena makin canggihnya teknologi media massa. Hallyu memengaruhi peradaban global dengan berbagai macam produk media massa, termasuk salah satunya serial drama Korea dengan mengusung tema romantisme. Romantisme yang diusung dalam drama Korea ini, tidak bisa lepas dari apa yang disebut oleh Jean Baudrillard sebagai Simulacra (realitas semu) yang kelak akan menjadi sebuah hiperrealita ketika realitas semu itu diyakini menjadi lebih riil daripada realita itu sendiri. Serial drama Korea A Business Proposal menjadi salah satu contoh drama yang menyajikan bentuk romantisme utopis (romantisme semu). Konsep romantisme dibangun sedemikian rupa sehingga memunculkan konsep romantisme yang baru yang berbeda jauh dengan realita romantisme. A Business Proposal, menyajikan konsep baru romantisme dengan citra sebagai figur ideal, aspek naturalitas romantisme, aspek hirarkis romantisme, aspek absurditas romantisme serta aspek motivasional romantisme. Penelitian ini menfokuskan pada analisa drama Korea A Business Proposal yang dirilis pada bulan Februari 2022, dalam perspektif Teori Simulacra Jean Baudrillard terutama pada konsep romantisme atau hubungan romantis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, drama Korea A Business Proposal dengan dibalut tema pokok romantisme, menyuguhkan berbagai macam realita utopis sehingga dapat dikatakan sebagai drama yang penuh dengan longsoran Simulacra romantisme yang menciptakan sebuah romantisme utopis.

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“…Keempat, distributive channels yang terdiri dari broadcast, satelit, TV kabel, budaya, institusi edukasi, komunitas diaspora, media sosial, dan internet. Kelima, short/long-term effects yang berupa penjualan pada industri dan bisnis ritel, national branding dan competitive advantage dalam perdagangan internasional (Ryoo & Jin, 2018).…”

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Rosana

2022

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“…The government's inclusion of web dramas in its development plans for culture added to their legitimacy. Thus, when web dramas were first becoming popular, the administration of President Geun-hye Park (2013-17) made clear its intention to increase support for the creative activities of the culture industry through policies and the allocation of state funds (Ryoo and Jin, 2020). The administration identified cultural areas with the potential to expand the reach of the Korean Wave, including fashion, webtoon (cartoons for web platforms), digital games, and animation, and increased financial support to and tax breaks for businesses involved in such cultural production.…”

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Better than television: The rise of Korean web dramas

Kang

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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The web dramas produced and consumed in South Korea are a short, serialized form of content produced specifically for mobile viewing platforms. Through discursive analysis, this article examines the positioning of web dramas as a step in the evolution of television and finds that they have been legitimized as a higher-quality form than television drama because of their economic potential. To begin with, web dramas have the potential to generate synergistic economic effects impacting other areas of culture, such as tourism, television, and webtoons. Second, web dramas have been represented as the best strategy for tapping into the vast Chinese market, especially during periods in which strained political relations between Korea and China prevented the export of television dramas. Moreover, web dramas have been optimized for mobile platforms through experimentation with aesthetics and topics in ways that have not been possible for television dramas. Thus, web dramas offer a window into the relationship between perceptions of quality and commercial profitability.

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“…Commentators often highlight the ever-increasing public support for cultural businesses since the 1990s against the backdrop of neoliberal reform and globalisation, hinting that the conventional discourse (and critique) of neoliberal policy does not easily capture what has happened in Korea (Chung, 2019;Jin, 2014;Kwon & Kim, 2014;Otmazgin 2011;Ryoo & Jin, 2020). For example, Jin (2014) notes that state power has not diminished but has even reinforced when it comes to cultural policy.…”

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“…For example, Jin (2014) notes that state power has not diminished but has even reinforced when it comes to cultural policy. Despite observing a fluctuation of the level of state interventionism across different governments (Ryoo & Jin, 2020), he concludes that the "developmental state" in Korea is not dead and neoliberalism makes no fundamental change to the underlying shapes of its cultural policy (Jin, 2014). Similarly, Chung (2019) argues that the Korean cultural industry policy is "neo-developmental" as the characteristics of the developmental cultural policy maintain while the understanding of culture and the making of cultural policy has been democratised since the 1990s.…”

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Supporting the cultural industries using venture capital: a policy experiment from South Korea

Lee

2021

Cultural Trends

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This paper explores the interface between the state, the cultural industries and the financial market by focusing on a policy experiment from South Korea: using venture capital for public cultural investment. This policy experiment has significantly increased capital injection to the cultural industries and has provided a fertile ground for the industries to quickly grow. Challenging the dichotomist understanding of the state-market relations, this paper views the government's use of venture capital as a "state-led regulated financialisation" project, in which the cultural ministry has created, expanded and "tamed" the cultural venture capital market. Venture capital companies' profit maximisation is seriously limited by not only government regulations but also strategic behaviour of private investors (cultural distributors). Yet, the paper points out that involving the financial market further complicates cultural industry policy, which already entails tension between culture and industry.

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Cultural politics in the South Korean cultural industries: confrontations between state-developmentalism and neoliberalism

Cited by 18 publications

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A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

A Business Proposal: Analisis Simulacra Romantisme Drama Korea

Better than television: The rise of Korean web dramas

Supporting the cultural industries using venture capital: a policy experiment from South Korea

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