<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear
list members, </font></span></p>
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<p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">We are delighted to announce the publication of the winter
2013 issue of the <i>Korea Journal</i> (vol.
53, no. 4), which is </span><span lang="EN-US">de</span><span lang="EN-US">dicat</span><span lang="EN-US">ed</span><span lang="EN-US"> to the special topic</span><span lang="EN-US"> of “Understanding the
K-pop Phenomenon and Hallyu.”</span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Korean
popular music, simply referred to as K-pop, has grown into a popular subculture
among teenagers and young adults around the world, especially in many parts of
Asia, and has become the most important part of the Hallyu (Korean Wave).
While there is considerable research on Hallyu, there has been, to date,
limited scholarly attention paid to K-pop despite K-pop’s stature as a socially
significant phenomenon. This special issue has been designed to redress this
problem, delineating K-pop’s genre, industry, production, reproduction, and
impact, and systematically and analytically examining the outstanding issues pertaining
to K-pop.</span><br></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
first article by Gil-Sung Park attempts to untangle the enigma of Korean music
management firms, particularly SM Entertainment, focusing on the
three stages of music creation, music localization, and global music
dissemination. The second article by Ingyu Oh and Hyo-Jung Lee
puts the global K-pop obsession into a theoretical perspective, focusing
on the relationship between mass media technologies and music
genres, and argues that K-pop’s newly acquired standing as a new
global music genre was only possible due to certain technological advancements
made possible by YouTube. The third article by Andrew Eungi Kim et
al. investigates the nature of tourist audiences of K-pop based on
in-depth interviews with Japanese and Indonesian female K-pop fans and establishes
different patterns in their K-pop learning behavior: forward and
retrospective. The last article by Wonho Jang and Young Sun Kim seeks
to find Korean particularities that account for the success of
K-pop and attributes them to time/space hybridity, the “red
queen’s race,” and cosmopolitan striving.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">In
addition to these special topic articles, this
issue includes three research articles that have
been accepted for publication after critical
peer-review processes. The article
by Park, Wilding, and Myung examines the way that three
groups of citizens (adolescents, housewives, and the politically active) socially
constructed the issue of U.S. beef imports in Korea in 2008. Don Baker’s
article attempts to redress the prevalent overemphasis of religion's
role in legitimizing Yi Seong-gye’s seizure of the throne, highlighting the
distinctive Korean solution to the problem of church-state relations. Finally,
Lee and Cho’s article examines how the recipe and meaning of <i>bulgogi</i> have
changed over time, based on shifting economic and social
conditions in Korea.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This
issue also features a book review of <i>South Korean
Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society</i> (edited by Gi-Wook
Shin and Paul Y. Chang), which delivers a comprehensive account of
the evolution of Korean social movements and their status today.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The
contents of this issue are as follows: </font></span></p>
<p class="" style="text-align:justify"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16pt"><span lang="EN-US">Special Topic: </span></b><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:16pt"><span lang="EN-US">Understanding the
K-pop Phenomenon and Hallyu</span></b></p><p class="" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal">Gil-Sung PARK / [On this topic]
>From Fragile Cosmopolitanism to Sustainable Multicultural Vigor</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Gil-Sung PARK / Manufacturing
Creativity: Production, Performance, and Dissemination of K-pop</span><br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ingyu OH and Hyo-Jung LEE / Mass
Media Technologies and Popular Music Genres: K-pop and YouTube</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Andrew Eungi KIM, Fitria
MAYASARI, and Ingyu OH / When Tourist Audiences Encounter Each Other: Diverging
Learning Behaviors of K-pop Fans from Japan and Indonesia</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wonho JANG and Youngsun KIM / Envisaging
the Sociocultural Dynamics of K-pop: Time/Space Hybridity, Red Queen’s Race,
and Cosmopolitan Striving</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">ARTICLES</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Chisung PARK, Mark WILDING, and
Sung-Jun MYUNG / Online Learning Patterns and the Social Construction of U.S.
Beef Imports in Korea: A Comparison of Three Online Communities</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Don BAKER / Rhetoric, Ritual,
and Political Legitimacy: Justifying Yi Seong-gye’s Ascension to the Throne</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">LEE Kyou Jin and CHO Mi Sook / The
Evolution of <i>Bulgogi </i>over the Past
100 Years</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">BOOK REVIEW</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Aie-Rie LEE / <i>South Korean Social Movements: From
Democracy</i> <i>to Civil Society</i>, edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Paul Y. Chang</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We
would like to take this opportunity to remind list members that we always
welcome submissions of articles and book reviews in the field of Korean studies.
For further information on submission guidelines, please refer to the journal's
web page: <a href="http://www.ekoreajournal.net/submission/index.htm">http://www.ekoreajournal.net/submission/index.htm</a>.
We also want to wish you all the very best for the approaching New Year!</font></span></p>
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