[KS] Publication Announcement: Korea Journal, vol. 53, no. 4

[Korea, Journal]

Dear list members,


We are delighted to announce the publication of the winter 2013 issue of
the *Korea Journal* (vol. 53, no. 4), which is dedicated to the special
topic of “Understanding the K-pop Phenomenon and Hallyu.”

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.



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.



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 *bulgogi* have changed over time, based on shifting economic and
social conditions in Korea.



This issue also features a book review of *South Korean Social Movements:
>From Democracy to Civil Society* (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.



The contents of this issue are as follows:

*Special Topic: **Understanding the K-pop Phenomenon and Hallyu*

Gil-Sung PARK / [On this topic] From Fragile Cosmopolitanism to Sustainable
Multicultural Vigor

Gil-Sung PARK / Manufacturing Creativity: Production, Performance, and
Dissemination of K-pop



Ingyu OH and Hyo-Jung LEE / Mass Media Technologies and Popular Music
Genres: K-pop and YouTube



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



Wonho JANG and Youngsun KIM / Envisaging the Sociocultural Dynamics of
K-pop: Time/Space Hybridity, Red Queen’s Race, and Cosmopolitan Striving




ARTICLES



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



Don BAKER / Rhetoric, Ritual, and Political Legitimacy: Justifying Yi
Seong-gye’s Ascension to the Throne



LEE Kyou Jin and CHO Mi Sook / The Evolution of *Bulgogi *over the Past 100
Years




BOOK REVIEW



Aie-Rie LEE / *South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy* *to Civil
Society*, edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Paul Y. Chang



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:
http://www.ekoreajournal.net/submission/index.htm. We also want to wish you
all the very best for the approaching New Year!



Sincerely,



*Korea Journal*

Tel: 82-2-6958-4123/4110

Fax: 82-2-6958-4250

Website: www.ekoreajournal.net

E-mail: kj at unesco.or.kr
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