TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kim,Youna
TI  - South Korean popular culture and North Korea
T2  - Media, culture and social change in Asia
SN  - 9781138477674 (hardback)
U1  - 303.482519305195 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London and New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Korea (South)
KW  - Korea (North)
KW  - Culture diffusion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media has to be consumed underground and unofficially in North Korea, it is widely watched and listened to. The book examines the ways in which this is leading to popular yearning in North Korea for migration, defecting to the South or for people to just become more like South Koreans. Overall, the book demonstrates that the soft power of the Korean wave is having an undermining impact on the hard, constraining cultural climate of North Korea"--
ER  -