KOREA 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: East Asian Cultural Sphere, Park Chung-Hee, Korean Wave
Document Summary
What is popular culture and contemporary popular culture spread through east asia. 10 when k drama comes to the us. Contemporary korea in global perspective: globalism, economic development, authoritarianism, democratization, compressed modernity, attests to the possibility of leapfrogging from an agricultural society to a thigh-tech information society in less than four decades. Interesting mentions: flashmob trafalgar square, south korea gdp per capita, korean tourism video (sjk) there is a gap in the government in the historical work we read today. Ad was carefully selected for people interested in korea: compressed modernity, geopolitical location of korea is important, where it shares borders with russia, china and near japan. Nose to nose on korean peninsula: sk has largest ship builder, samsung and lg are global brands. they are able to transform themselves, japanese came in and colonized korea in the early 1900s. American in uence on south korea: in early post war years, most of korean spendings came from american assistance.
