East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave

Contributors

Introduction: Siting Asian Cultural Flows ix CHUA Beng Huat is in charge of the Cultural Studies Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore. In the past few years, he has been actively engaged in collaborative work in the field of East Asian pop culture. He is founding coexecutive editor of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His most recent book, as editor, is Election as Popular Culture in Asia (2007). Yukie HIRATA is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, Yonsei University, and teaches in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Dokkyo University, Seoul. Koichi IWABUCHI teaches media and cultural studies at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. His English publications include: Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002); Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas (ed. Hong Kong University Press, 2004); and Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian cultural traffic (co-ed. with S. Mueke and M. Thomas, Hong Kong University Press, 2004). Dong-Hoo LEE is an associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication at University of Incheon, Korea. She has published articles on transnational program adaptation and digital mobile culture in Korea. Contributors x Contributors Her research interests include media flow in the age of globalization, the cultural consequences of new communication technology, and medium theory. Keehyeung LEE teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. He specializes in media and cultural studies. His work includes ‘Beyond the fragments: Reflecting on communicational cultural studies in South Korea’(2005); ‘Speak memory! Morae Sigye and the politics of social melodrama in contemporary South Korea’, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies (2004). Lisa Y. M. LEUNG is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has published journal articles on the localization of international women’s magazines, the globalisation of Chinese satellite TV, and gender and cross-cultural analysis of flows of media and cultural products across Asia, including several book chapters that examine transnational reception of Korean dramas. Tania LIM received her PhD in Media and Communications from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She now works on media policy issues at the Media Development Authority of Singapore. Her research areas are the development of Asian film and television industries, new media and globalisation, youth media and consumerism. Angel LIN is an associate professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. She works in the areas of critical discourse analysis, urban ethnography, critical pedagogy, feminist media studies and youth cultural studies. Yoshitaka MO – RI is an associate professor of sociology and cultural studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His research interests are postmodern culture, media, art, the city and transnationalism. His recent publications include Karutyuraru Stadeizu Nyumon (The introduction to cultural studies, with Toshiya Ueno) 2000 and ‘Culture = politics: The emergence of new cultural forms of protest in the age of Freeter’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2005). Doobo SHIM is associate professor in the School of Culture and Communications at the Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include: the impact of globalization on Korean media Contributors xi industry, dynamics of Asian media industries, and international communication theories. He has published in Media Culture and Society, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Prometheus. Avin Hei Man TONG is a research associate in the Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her MA in Communication from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been researching topics in youth cultures, media audience studies and feminist cultural studies. Eva TSAI is an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Mass Communication, National Taiwan Normal University. Her work has appeared in the anthology Feeling Asian Modernities (Hong Kong University Press, 2004), and journals such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, InterAsia Cultural Studies, and Japan Forum. She is writing a book about the production of love by the East Asian cultural industries. Fang-chih Irene YANG is associate professor at the Department of English in National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. She has published articles on the localization of international women’s magazines in Taiwan, the production and reception of popular music, sexual politics in variety shows, politics of translating post-feminism from the West to Taiwan, and reception of Korean dramas in Taiwan. ii Koichi Iwabuchi, Stephen Muecke and Mandy...