Heekyoung Cho
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heekyoung Cho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heekyoung |
| FAMILY NAME | Cho |
| SIGNATURE | CHO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reverse Digital Seriality
This article discusses how the platformization driven by webcomics and web novels began to change so-called serious literature. It does so through an examination of the recent phenomenon of digital platforms disassembling novels originally published in book form into multiple installments for digital serialization. Going beyond the simple e-book publication of a printed version, this unbundling and repackaging of a printed book into digital seria…
Blog Serials
The 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s were a period that witnessed dramatic changes in the literary scene in South Korea. Literary production’s engagement with digital media was one of the major changes in this period, when the divide, collision, and merge between pre-digital and digital came to affect almost every aspect of the society. This article explores the divergent strands in the development of digital literature, the new affordance…
Transnational Hallyu
Book Review| August 16 2023 Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture. By Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, and Wonjung Min. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. vii, 188 pp. ISBN: 9781538146965. Heekyoung Cho Heekyoung Cho University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10773177…
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
The Platformization of Culture
This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)-a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics-which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital serial production in twenty-first-century Korea. Webtoons have developed by utilizing various potentials that the digital platform offers, such as open solicitation, (partial) free web/mobile distribution, profit from advertisement and page viewing, and transmedia production. As a new cultural …
Translation's Forgotten History
Translation’s Forgotten History
"Through examination of the literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea and through understanding of a shared sensibility and literary experience in East Asia, this book highlights translation as a radical and ineradicable part of the formation of modern national literature and begins to rethink the way modern literature developed in Korea and East Asia"
Imagined, Transcultural, and Colonial Spaces in Print
This essay analyzes the Korean ‘relay translation’ of a Japanese adaptation of an English popular novel, entitled Chŏngbuwŏn (A virtuous woman’s resentment) in Korean, which was serialized in a daily newspaper in the mid-1910s. In tandem with the English source text and the Japanese translation, the meaning of the Korean translation was overdetermined by advertisements for the translation, the translator’s preface and footnotes, the readers’ resp…
Transnational Hallyu
Book Review| August 16 2023 Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture. By Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, and Wonjung Min. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. vii, 188 pp. ISBN: 9781538146965. Heekyoung Cho Heekyoung Cho University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10773177…
The Platformization of Culture
This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)-a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics-which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital serial production in twenty-first-century Korea. Webtoons have developed by utilizing various potentials that the digital platform offers, such as open solicitation, (partial) free web/mobile distribution, profit from advertisement and page viewing, and transmedia production. As a new cultural …
Imagined, Transcultural, and Colonial Spaces in Print
This essay analyzes the Korean ‘relay translation’ of a Japanese adaptation of an English popular novel, entitled Chŏngbuwŏn (A virtuous woman’s resentment) in Korean, which was serialized in a daily newspaper in the mid-1910s. In tandem with the English source text and the Japanese translation, the meaning of the Korean translation was overdetermined by advertisements for the translation, the translator’s preface and footnotes, the readers’ resp…
Translation's Forgotten History
Translation’s Forgotten History
"Through examination of the literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea and through understanding of a shared sensibility and literary experience in East Asia, this book highlights translation as a radical and ineradicable part of the formation of modern national literature and begins to rethink the way modern literature developed in Korea and East Asia"
The Platformization of Culture
This article examines the webtoon (wept'un)-a term coined in Korea to refer to webcomics-which is arguably the most pervasive and powerful form of digital serial production in twenty-first-century Korea. Webtoons have developed by utilizing various potentials that the digital platform offers, such as open solicitation, (partial) free web/mobile distribution, profit from advertisement and page viewing, and transmedia production. As a new cultural …
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Transnational Hallyu
Book Review| August 16 2023 Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture. By Dal Yong Jin, Kyong Yoon, and Wonjung Min. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. vii, 188 pp. ISBN: 9781538146965. Heekyoung Cho Heekyoung Cho University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies 10773177…
Blog Serials
The 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s were a period that witnessed dramatic changes in the literary scene in South Korea. Literary production’s engagement with digital media was one of the major changes in this period, when the divide, collision, and merge between pre-digital and digital came to affect almost every aspect of the society. This article explores the divergent strands in the development of digital literature, the new affordance…
Reverse Digital Seriality
This article discusses how the platformization driven by webcomics and web novels began to change so-called serious literature. It does so through an examination of the recent phenomenon of digital platforms disassembling novels originally published in book form into multiple installments for digital serialization. Going beyond the simple e-book publication of a printed version, this unbundling and repackaging of a printed book into digital seria…
Art (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)