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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Theorizing the Global Popularity of South Korean Media within De-Westernizing Frameworks</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">The flows of South Korean media and pop music (K-pop) across the globe (or
<i>hallyu</i>) are among the most visible signals of a more multipolar global media culture. Although there has been a proliferation of research in what is increasingly called Korean Wave Studies, heretofore, most theory-building has relied heavily on outside
explanatory frameworks,. The purpose of this special issue is to call on scholars to articulate new theoretical directions that center around local contexts. We are not calling for a de-colonial abandonment of a Western canon but, rather, theoretical contributions
that are not overly indebted to it, thereby avoiding incomplete explanations. We encourage scholars to push theoretical boundaries in order to make generative contributions that not only move forward the study of Korean media and, perhaps, the study of other
East Asian media but that produce multipolar centers of knowledge production, which can contribute to a richer, global body of literature. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">The counterflows of global Korean media have attracted growing academic interest in terms of emerging cultural diversity, resistance to
minor cultures and the ability to envision popular democracy outside of the unilateral construction of the West as the model of modernity and liberal democracy. There have been some calls to decolonize and de-Westernize the study of (East) Asian popular
culture, but even <i>hallyu</i> studies that explain the global popularity of Korean media through post-colonial theories such as hybridity, self-Orientalism, or post-colonial desire still draw upon existing theories popular in the Western academy rather than
generate a new theoretical ferment. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Although this work has been productive, the context in which these theories developed differ from Koreas postcolonial condition. Unlike
postcolonial states dominated by the West, Koreas colonial subjugation was violently enforced by Japan, a regional neighbor, and was displaced by the U.S.s imperial ambitions in the Pacific Islands and East Asia. The post-coloniality of Korea and Korean
culture differs from societies that postcolonial theories explain. Moreover, dynamics of globalizing Korean media and the current use of new media often fit uneasily. Korean media have heavily relied on new media strategies, and the nations cultural industries
currently produce innovative digital content and platforms (i.e. digital games, webtoon, digital K-pop platforms). In the process, Korean media industries frequently intervene in the global system by mobilizing popular participation worldwide through new media
which raise new social and political issues such as affective labor and affective social movements. As global popularity of Korean media matures within the existing global hegemonic order, innovative efforts of Korean media are oftentimes created for but
constrained by its economic need to export its media contents within a techno global hegemonic system.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black; background-color: white;">These transformations require more theoretical work and should move toward more nuanced explanatory frameworks. We believe that it is necessary
to develop new directions in the study of global Korean media. The purpose of this special issue is to build new theory that richly draws upon the specific context of globalizing South Korean media. This call takes up a similar ethos to Korean media, which
is created within its local context but with a motivation to move beyond national or regional boundaries. Topics that scholars might address include, but are not limited to: </span></p>
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<div role="presentation"><span style="background-color: white;">New theoretical outlooks in the de-Westernization of
<i>Hallyu</i> studies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Theoretical implications of new media use among global
<i>Hallyu</i> and K-pop fans</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Indigenizing and localizing theories in the context of new trends of Korean media and</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">counterflows to global hegemony.</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Reimagination of de-Westernizing theories that take into account the creativity of Korean cultural platforms amidst dynamic changes in the global media sphere</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Counterflows of Korean media in the world hegemonic order and the theoretical implications of de-westernization</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Theoretical implications of transnational fandom in relation to their social networking and technological production of intimate fan-idol relations through new media platforms.</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Live experiences of global fans uses of new media and cultural strategies of popular democracy</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Theoretical issues of popular participation in innovative production and civic movements through global
<i>Hallyu</i>platforms</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">Theorizing the simultaneity of the post and the neocolonial in Korean media and popular</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="background-color: white;" role="presentation">culture and localizing cultural theories</span></li><li style="font-family: Georgia, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div role="presentation"><span style="background-color: white;">New methodological directions in Korean wave studies from the de-westernizing perspective</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;"><b>Papers due by December 30, 2025.</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;">Submissions should be made directly to the special issues editor by email
</span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:syoon@hanyang.ac.kr" title="mailto:syoon@hanyang.ac.kr" data-outlook-id="80040cc8-4c8b-47fb-8920-a8104b57805a" style="color: blue;">syoon@hanyang.ac.kr</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for
pre-evaluation screening and revision by December 30. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;">Individual articles should be no more than 7500 words, inclusive of tables, references, figures, or notes. Please adhere to the journals submission guidelines:
</span><span style="color: black;"><u><a href="http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/45650_Manuscript_Submission.pdf" title="http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/45650_Manuscript_Submission.pdf" data-outlook-id="8ad23e83-2603-4e85-a291-9837ee348643" style="color: black;">http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/45650_Manuscript_Submission.pdf</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white;">Should you have any queries, feel free to forward it to Dr. Sunny Yoon at</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:syoon@hanyang.ac.kr" title="mailto:syoon@hanyang.ac.kr" data-outlook-id="13f70d24-6a44-48ae-91d8-9efeca98d17d" style="color: blue;">syoon@hanyang.ac.kr</a>. </u></span></div>
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