Hyejung Ju
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hyejung Ju |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hyejung |
| FAMILY NAME | Ju |
| SIGNATURE | JU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claflin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5504-1585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"Deterritorialisation of Korean TV dramas in "Netflix Originals: We are living in the Squid Game world
Squid Game's phenomenal success calls attention to the local specificity of Netflix's global expansion as it commissions original K-dramas. This practice has rich implications, both positive and negative, for Netflix's production and distribution of Korean content. K-dramas classified as Netflix Originals have been riding its international market power to a wide range of transnational audiences, enabling national television creators to reimagine …
K-dramas meet Netflix
Netflix is a significant promoter of K-dramas and expands K-dramas’ speedy distribution and shareability to broader Western audiences. This chapter delves into a new development of K-dramas along with Netflix, looking specifically at how the platform and K-dramas combine to generate increasing attention to Western viewers that seems quite different from how the first wave of K-dramas swung across Asia. Two recent Netflix Originals, Mr. Sunshine a…
Korean TV drama viewership on Netflix: Transcultural affection, romance, and identities
This article examined the consumption of Korean television drama by US viewers of Netflix. Specifically, it analyzed Korean drama reviews in Netflix and found that these viewers engaged with Korean dramas by emphasizing affective consumption that tied to identifying the substance of love themes. These viewers showed a high degree of emotional involvement in portrayed romantic feelings as well as characters’ interactions, and closely related their…
The Korean Wave and Korean Dramas
For the past two decades, the Korean Wave has been recognized in many parts of the world, and has articulated dynamic junctures of globalization, regionalization, and localization in the realms of media and popular culture. Due to online media platforms such as streaming services, television content has been diversifying and increasing its transnational circulation. More recently, the outbound scope of K-drama and K-pop has further reached disper…
National television moves to the region and beyond: South Korean TV drama production with a new cultural act
The study examines Korea’s unique television production systems and TV drama production strategies in the context of Korean dramas’ rising international trade along the line with its new governmental act to television industry. In 2006 the government passed a new cultural act specifically to promote TV content production, as an amendment of the Media and Cultural Industry Act. This act specified that media content production could exclusively per…
The Korean Wave and Asian Americans: The ethnic meanings of transnational Korean pop culture in the USA
The transnational Korean media and its active streams to the USA have seemingly increased its potency as new ethnic media. Ethnic media can be defined in more than one way; this demands a shift in the definition, meaning, impact and role of ethnic media at the heart of increasing transnational media use by ethnic minorities and immigrants. This study examines how transnational Korean pop culture has been consumed by Asian American youth and in wh…
Transformations of the Korean Media Industry by the Korean Wave: The Perspective of Glocalization
Arjun Appadurai1 argues that the polycentric dispersion of the contemporary media, technology, and financial flows has progressed. This claim for popular culture scholarship draws an attention to how producers, filmmakers, and distributors within the marginal media industry have been competing with globally dominant media counterparts. Recently, South Korean (hereafter Korean) media industry has been encouraging reconsidering the role of nation-s…
Korean Television Dramas in Japan: Imagining “East Asianness” and Consuming “Nostalgia
In this article, we explored how Japanese Korean drama readings have identified in resonance with their imaginations of spatial locality and postcolonial consciousness. Throughout the in-depth interviews, we discovered how to inscribe Korean dramas into the Japanese audience’s minds as well as what elements in reading Korean dramas particularly empowered the Japanese fans to re-imagine their belonging within the East Asian community. Korean drama…
Dimensions of Trust: The Tensions and Challenges in Provider-Interpreter Trust
In this study we examined the challenges to providers' and interpreters' collaboration in bilingual health care. We conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with 26 medical interpreters (speaking 17 languages) and 32 providers (from four specialties) in the United States to provide an empirically based framework of provider-interpreter trust. Constant comparative analysis was used for data analysis. We identified four dimensions of trust, t…
Technology and Social Sensibility in South Korea: A Case Study of Mobile Phone Advertising
Journal Article Technology and Social Sensibility in South Korea: A Case Study of Mobile Phone Advertising Get access Hyejung Ju Hyejung Ju 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 201–220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2009.01035.x Published: 21 July 2009
Korean TV drama viewership on Netflix: Transcultural affection, romance, and identities
This article examined the consumption of Korean television drama by US viewers of Netflix. Specifically, it analyzed Korean drama reviews in Netflix and found that these viewers engaged with Korean dramas by emphasizing affective consumption that tied to identifying the substance of love themes. These viewers showed a high degree of emotional involvement in portrayed romantic feelings as well as characters’ interactions, and closely related their…
The Korean Wave and Asian Americans: The ethnic meanings of transnational Korean pop culture in the USA
The transnational Korean media and its active streams to the USA have seemingly increased its potency as new ethnic media. Ethnic media can be defined in more than one way; this demands a shift in the definition, meaning, impact and role of ethnic media at the heart of increasing transnational media use by ethnic minorities and immigrants. This study examines how transnational Korean pop culture has been consumed by Asian American youth and in wh…
Dimensions of Trust: The Tensions and Challenges in Provider-Interpreter Trust
In this study we examined the challenges to providers' and interpreters' collaboration in bilingual health care. We conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with 26 medical interpreters (speaking 17 languages) and 32 providers (from four specialties) in the United States to provide an empirically based framework of provider-interpreter trust. Constant comparative analysis was used for data analysis. We identified four dimensions of trust, t…
Korean Television Dramas in Japan: Imagining “East Asianness” and Consuming “Nostalgia
In this article, we explored how Japanese Korean drama readings have identified in resonance with their imaginations of spatial locality and postcolonial consciousness. Throughout the in-depth interviews, we discovered how to inscribe Korean dramas into the Japanese audience’s minds as well as what elements in reading Korean dramas particularly empowered the Japanese fans to re-imagine their belonging within the East Asian community. Korean drama…
National television moves to the region and beyond: South Korean TV drama production with a new cultural act
The study examines Korea’s unique television production systems and TV drama production strategies in the context of Korean dramas’ rising international trade along the line with its new governmental act to television industry. In 2006 the government passed a new cultural act specifically to promote TV content production, as an amendment of the Media and Cultural Industry Act. This act specified that media content production could exclusively per…
Technology and Social Sensibility in South Korea: A Case Study of Mobile Phone Advertising
Journal Article Technology and Social Sensibility in South Korea: A Case Study of Mobile Phone Advertising Get access Hyejung Ju Hyejung Ju 1Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 201–220, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2009.01035.x Published: 21 July 2009
Korean Television Dramas in Japan: Imagining “East Asianness” and Consuming “Nostalgia
In this article, we explored how Japanese Korean drama readings have identified in resonance with their imaginations of spatial locality and postcolonial consciousness. Throughout the in-depth interviews, we discovered how to inscribe Korean dramas into the Japanese audience’s minds as well as what elements in reading Korean dramas particularly empowered the Japanese fans to re-imagine their belonging within the East Asian community. Korean drama…
Dimensions of Trust: The Tensions and Challenges in Provider-Interpreter Trust
In this study we examined the challenges to providers' and interpreters' collaboration in bilingual health care. We conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with 26 medical interpreters (speaking 17 languages) and 32 providers (from four specialties) in the United States to provide an empirically based framework of provider-interpreter trust. Constant comparative analysis was used for data analysis. We identified four dimensions of trust, t…
Transformations of the Korean Media Industry by the Korean Wave: The Perspective of Glocalization
Arjun Appadurai1 argues that the polycentric dispersion of the contemporary media, technology, and financial flows has progressed. This claim for popular culture scholarship draws an attention to how producers, filmmakers, and distributors within the marginal media industry have been competing with globally dominant media counterparts. Recently, South Korean (hereafter Korean) media industry has been encouraging reconsidering the role of nation-s…
The Korean Wave and Asian Americans: The ethnic meanings of transnational Korean pop culture in the USA
The transnational Korean media and its active streams to the USA have seemingly increased its potency as new ethnic media. Ethnic media can be defined in more than one way; this demands a shift in the definition, meaning, impact and role of ethnic media at the heart of increasing transnational media use by ethnic minorities and immigrants. This study examines how transnational Korean pop culture has been consumed by Asian American youth and in wh…
National television moves to the region and beyond: South Korean TV drama production with a new cultural act
The study examines Korea’s unique television production systems and TV drama production strategies in the context of Korean dramas’ rising international trade along the line with its new governmental act to television industry. In 2006 the government passed a new cultural act specifically to promote TV content production, as an amendment of the Media and Cultural Industry Act. This act specified that media content production could exclusively per…
The Korean Wave and Korean Dramas
For the past two decades, the Korean Wave has been recognized in many parts of the world, and has articulated dynamic junctures of globalization, regionalization, and localization in the realms of media and popular culture. Due to online media platforms such as streaming services, television content has been diversifying and increasing its transnational circulation. More recently, the outbound scope of K-drama and K-pop has further reached disper…
Korean TV drama viewership on Netflix: Transcultural affection, romance, and identities
This article examined the consumption of Korean television drama by US viewers of Netflix. Specifically, it analyzed Korean drama reviews in Netflix and found that these viewers engaged with Korean dramas by emphasizing affective consumption that tied to identifying the substance of love themes. These viewers showed a high degree of emotional involvement in portrayed romantic feelings as well as characters’ interactions, and closely related their…
K-dramas meet Netflix
Netflix is a significant promoter of K-dramas and expands K-dramas’ speedy distribution and shareability to broader Western audiences. This chapter delves into a new development of K-dramas along with Netflix, looking specifically at how the platform and K-dramas combine to generate increasing attention to Western viewers that seems quite different from how the first wave of K-dramas swung across Asia. Two recent Netflix Originals, Mr. Sunshine a…
"Deterritorialisation of Korean TV dramas in "Netflix Originals: We are living in the Squid Game world
Squid Game's phenomenal success calls attention to the local specificity of Netflix's global expansion as it commissions original K-dramas. This practice has rich implications, both positive and negative, for Netflix's production and distribution of Korean content. K-dramas classified as Netflix Originals have been riding its international market power to a wide range of transnational audiences, enabling national television creators to reimagine …
Asian Culture and Media Studies (8 works) · Advertising (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Drama (3 works)