Putting creative labour in its place in the shadow of the Korean Wave

Kim, Changwook; Lee, Sangkyu

doi:10.1080/10286632.2022.2087643

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Digital Soft Power In the Korean Wavementioning

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“…In the Korean Wave tradition, a handful of scholars (Ayhan, 2017; M. S. Kim, 2022; Kim & Jin, 2016; Nye & Kim, 2013) have paid attention to local popular culture as a source of soft power over the past decade. As Yoon (2023, p. 17) points out, “increasing discourses about Hallyu as a soft power resource in international relations have been influenced by, and have influenced, the ways in which the cultural wave is signified both in local and global contexts.” As is well-documented, the Korean government utilizes various popular cultures, such as dramas and K-pop, “as an effective way to create and sell a dynamic image of the nation through soft power, a cultural weapon to entice, attract, and influence international audiences without coercion” (Y.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Digital Soft Power In the Korean Wavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Contemporary soft power utilizing popular culture is related to public diplomacy in support of foreign policy goals (Mark, 2009), as popular culture has been confined to “the promotion of one nation’s culture abroad to strengthen relations with other nations” and “to enhance cooperation or to promote national interest” (Kozymka, 2014, p. 9). Popular culture implies “the exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples to foster mutual understanding” (Cummings, 2003, p. 1), and popular culture has been considered as the most important element of public diplomacy because culture as a tool of foreign policy is also a field of international relations (Kim & Jin, 2016).…”

Section: The Construction Of Korean Digital Soft Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A body of literature that has discussed the formation of digital technologies as a new digital power continuously grows, although more literature has concentrated on the general concept of soft power (Y. N. Kim, 2021; Kim & Jin, 2016; J. Nye, 2004).…”

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The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era

Jin

2024

Communication and the Public

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By employing digital soft power as a theoretical framework, this article examines the increasing role of domestic digital platforms in the New Korean Wave and their contributions to cultural diplomacy. It discusses the ways in which digital soft power becomes the primary vehicle in cultural diplomacy related to the Korean Wave. As there are tensions and conflicts between these private platforms and the Korean government, this article critically analyzes the crucial relations between these two major parties in executing cultural diplomacy and digital soft power. As its methodological framework, the utilization of social media by the Korean government, particularly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was used. It selects the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Facebook posts between 1 January and 31 December of 2022 to determine the ways in which the Korean government utilizes social media as a soft power tool. It develops discourse analysis in tandem with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Facebook posts to determine several major strategies the Korean government has advanced in the digital platform era.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Digital Soft Power In the Korean Wavementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Framework: Digital Soft Power In the Korean Wavementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Construction Of Korean Digital Soft Powermentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era

Jin

2024

Communication and the Public

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“…In his inaugural speech, President of the Republic of Korea Kim Dae-jung emphasized that "our energy should be directed towards the globalization of Korean culture as a whole" (Kim & Jin, 2016). This speech became largely directive, and it can be assumed that the Korean Wave is the implementation of the course towards "globalization of Korean culture" ( Kim & Jin, 2016). Moreover, the phenomenon is supported by the country's authorities.…”

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The Korean Wave as the Globalization of South Korean Culture

Glodev,

Wijaya,

Ida

2023

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The purpose of this study is to trace the growing attractiveness of the Korean Wave to understand the domestic culture of Korea that is becoming a global trend. The study is focused on the factors facilitating the formation of the phenomenon and proves that this trend has become one of the country's main export commodities and a “soft power”, as the promotion of Korean culture is a matter of national importance and pride for Seoul. The Republic of Korea has been absorbing the elements of Western culture and transforming them into a new phenomenon, representing a kind of coexistence and crossbreeding of the Western lifestyle and the traditional Eastern values. The context for the study is the cultural homogenization of the West and the East. Is it a blessing or an evil? What are its challenges and achievements, advantages, and disadvantages? What are the reasons for South Korean cultural expansion? The method utilized in the rerearch is narrative analysis to provide an overview of Korean pop culture that has been able to connect Western and Asian values into something unique.

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Innovations in Digital Comics

Benatti

2024

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The success of popular webcomics (comics produced and read entirely digitally) is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. Webcomics exploit a socio-technical convergence between digital platforms and participatory cultures, enabling global authors to work together with global audiences to transcend established print comics structures. After defining digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, this Element presents a case study of Korean platform WEBTOON, which achieved 100 billion global page views in 2019. The study analyses data from their website, including views, subscriptions and likes, to quantify and assess whether WEBTOON's commercial and critical success is connected to its inclusion of a wider range of genres and of a more diverse author base than mainstream English-language print comics. In so doing, it performs the first Book Historical study of webcomics and webtoons. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Putting creative labour in its place in the shadow of the Korean Wave

Cited by 5 publications

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The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era

The rise of digital platforms as a soft power apparatus in the New Korean Wave era

The Korean Wave as the Globalization of South Korean Culture

Innovations in Digital Comics

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