Cultural Policy in South Korea

Making a New Patron State
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-83135-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea, which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political, economic and social trajectory of Korea to a surprising degree. Investigating the content and context of the policy from the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) until the military authoritarian regime (1961–1988), the book discusses how culture, often co-opted by the government, was mobilised to disseminate state agendas and define national identity. It then moves on to investigate the distinct characteristics of Korea’s contemporary cultural policy since the 1990s, particularly its energetic pursuit of democracy, a market economy of culture and outward cultural globalisation (the Korean Wave). This book helps readers to understand the continuous presence of the ‘strong state’ in Korean cultural policy and its implications for the cultural life of Koreans. It argues that this exceptionally active cultural policy sets an important condition not only for artistic creation, cultural consumption and cultural business in the country, but also for the nation's ambitious endeavour to turn the success of its pop culture into a global phenomenon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Hye-Kyung (King's College London, UK)

Lee, Hye-Kyung

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Romanisation of Korean

Chapter 1. Introduction: Culture and the State

Chapter 2. The Origins of Cultural Policy

Chapter 3. Modernising Country and Nationalising Culture

Chapter 4. Democracy and Cultural Policy Transformation

Chapter 5. Doing Cultural Policy in the Neoliberal Era

Chapter 6. The Korean Wave Inside Out

Chapter 7. Conclusion: Past, Present and Future of the New Patron State

Über Autor(innen)

Hye-Kyung Lee is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at King’s College London, UK.