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K-Pop Girl: Legacy
Author: Anne Darcy
language: en
Publisher: Pemblerley Printing Press LLC
Release Date: 2025-01-20
Building a Legacy of Love K-Pop Girl Lee Hyeon-ju ‘Julee’ and her husband Joon begin a new chapter of their romance when they welcome their first child. Their lives continually intertwine with their BLAZE family in a complex weave of happiness, confusion, frustration, and loss. But always with a firm foundation of love and respect. As they navigate the twists and turns of everyday living, an obsessed adversary reappears determined to destroy a beloved legacy and she won’t let anything, or anyone, stand in her way.
From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls
Author: Gooyong Kim
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2020-07-06
Focusing on female idols’ proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea’s development trajectories, scrutinizing how a formula of developments from the country’ rapid industrial modernization (1960s-1980s) was updated and re-applied in the K-pop industry when the state had to implement a series of neoliberal reformations mandated by the IMF. To that end, applying Michel Foucault’s discussion on governmentality, a biopolitical dimension of neoliberalism, Kim argues how the regime of free market capitalism updates and reproduces itself by 1) forming a strategic alliance of interests with the state, and 2) using popular culture to facilitate individuals’ subjectification and subjectivation processes to become neoliberal agents. As to an importance of K-pop female idols, Kim indicates a sustained utility/legacy of the nation’s century-long patriarchy in a neoliberal development agenda. Young female talents have been mobilized and deployed in the neoliberal culture industry in a similar way to how un-wed, obedient female workers were exploited and disposed on the sweatshop factory floors to sustain the state’s export-oriented, labor-intensive manufacturing industry policy during its rapid developmental stage decades ago. In this respect, Kim maintains how a post-feminist, neoliberal discourse of girl power has marketed young, female talents as effective commodities, and how K-pop female idols exert biopolitical power as an active ideological apparatus that pleasurably perpetuates and legitimates neoliberal mantras in individuals’ everyday lives. Thus, Kim reveals there is a strategic convergence between Korea’s lingering legacies of patriarchy, developmentalism, and neoliberalism. While the current K-pop literature is micro-scopic and celebratory, Kim advances the scholarship by multi-perspectival, critical approaches. With a well-balanced perspective by micro-scopic textual analyses of music videos and macro-scopic examinations of historical and political economy backgrounds, Kim’s book provides a wealth of intriguing research agendas on the phenomenon, and will be a useful reference in International/ Intercultural Communication, Political Economy of the Media, Cultural/ Media Studies, Gender/ Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, and Korean Studies.
A World of Contradictions
Author: Dora Kourkoulou
language: en
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Release Date: 2026-03-23
A World of Contradictions foregrounds 18 original essays by senior and emerging scholars that take the form of an extended transnational conversation on the crises and challenges afflicting contemporary societies in the era of globalization. These essays bring historical relief and theoretical and concrete empirical focus to what the authors regard as the multiheaded planetary crises of climate change, the lingering effects of the covid pandemic, global economic downturn, and the proliferation of war and the impact of these dynamics on late modern institutions and futures for late modern subjects—particularly the superexploited, marginalized and displaced members of the poorer and precarious classes. Where opulence and obscene forms of wealth are too often juxtaposed to desperate poverty and social abandonment. And where the dominant forms of communication and exchange, now led forward by digitalization and AI, have not only accelerated communication among human subjects but have subverted all human harmony and have increased the propensities for isolation, antagonism and aggression in the socius. In A World of Contradictions, contributors pay special attention to these developments at particular flash points of contradiction, mutation and change in areas such as urban and suburban gentrification, the formation of policy discourses, racial antagonism, migration, AI, video games and electrified culture, art and aesthetics and the organization of knowledge itself in universities and schooling.