Section A01
In Response to: “Korean American Youth and Transnational Flows of Popular Culture across the Pacific" by Jung-Sun Park
Jung-Sun Park's article, “Korean American Youth and Transnational Flows of Popular Culture across the Pacific", describes how the transnational movement of Korean culture is not only a testament to cooperation between different countries and cultures in full acceptance of one another, but a method, adopted by many youths of Korean ancestry , that connects them from one culture to another. Korean Americans lie between a line (while I'm only describing this in a linear model for this case) from Korean historical relations and surrounding American mentality. From television dramas from the 1990's to recent years surrounded by Korean pop-music videos (K-Pop), it is not surprising to say that these media outlets would easily become magnets for those youths who feel displaced between a background they were born into and the culture they currently reside in. My thoughts here are whether using pop-culture is, and will continue being, an appropriate sourse of ease and information for Korean youths, and where it is to go about in the future?
Here is a description of a documentary, The Korean Wave: A new pop culture phenomenon
by Korean Culture and Information Service, involving the "Korean Wave":http://www.goodreads.com/mobile/book/description/12743124
"The term "Korean Wave" ("Hallyu" in Korean)was coined by the Chinese press a little more than a decade ago to refer to the popularity of Korean pop culture in China. The boom started with the export of Korean television dramas (miniseries) to China in the late 1990s. Since then, South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational pop culture, exporting a range of cultural products to neighboring Asian countries. More recently, Korean pop culture has begun spreading from its comfort zone in Asia to more global audiences in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas. "
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