Kyungjae Jang
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyungjae Jang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyungjae |
| FAMILY NAME | Jang |
| SIGNATURE | JANG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hiroshima University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8650-2324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Staging mediatized tourism places as imagined playscapes: The crucial role of a tour designer
This study examines how a mediatized space becomes a “staged” place to play with, and provides a symbolic platform for performance-based, tourism experiences from a tour program design perspective. It focuses on the Detective Conan Mystery Tour, a derivative tourism product of Detective Conan, a Japanese mystery fiction media franchise. Applying the concept of “playscapes” as the theoretical lens, the findings indicate that creating fiction-drive…
Real in virtual or virtual in real? Intersecting virtual and real experience in open-world video games and heritage tourism
The increasing numbers of open-world games provide a sense of immersion, as if users were in a virtual world, by guaranteeing free movement within that world. One example is Ghost of Tsushima, a game developed by Sucker Punch Productions in the United States and released in 2020. The game was created by adding fictional elements to the historical facts surrounding the Mongol Empire’s invasion of the Japanese island of Tsushima in 1274. The develo…
Island studies and socio-economic development policies in East Asia
The globalization of island studies has resulted in a greater recognition by island studies scholars of the need for more regional-based island research to encompass the diversity of island knowledge and experiences. Island research in East Asia provides examples of both English and native language perspectives across four distinct socio-cultural contexts: Japan, South Korea, the Chinese mainland, and Taiwan. Historical literature and contemporar…
Dark tourism as educational tourism: The case of ‘hope tourism’ in Fukushima, Japan
This article examines how dark tourism has been adopted and developed in Japan and suggests how it can be linked to educational tourism, through the case of a ‘Hope Tourism Guided Tour’ held in Fukushima in 2018. In Japan, dark tourism has developed into a new form, nested within educational tourism (or an educational tourism that contains elements of dark tourism within it). This is connected to the long history of educational tourism and to the…
Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour
Creative fandoms and the mediatized sacred sites
This chapter illustrates the process and structures of creating mediatized “sacred sites” of pop culture in the Internet age via what we term “creative fandom” (fan communities with active creativity). Through these two cases of Japanese game/animation The Idolmaster (2005) fans visiting Yayoiken Restaurant in Takatsuki city, Osaka, Japan, and the fan-made sacred site of the Japanese anime film Kiki’s Delivery Service in Tasmania, Australia, this…
Creating the sacred places of pop culture in the age of mobility: Fan pilgrimages and authenticity through performance
This paper clarifies the nature of Korean fans’ sacred meaning-making in popular culture pilgrimages. Travel to locations which have significance in pop culture has become a trend among fans. Interestingly, many fans do performances, sometimes ritual-like, at the destinations to express the value of the pop culture. Such ritual-like performances cross national borders in the age of mobility. Based on anthropological research, the paper analyses h…
Tourism and local identity generated by NHK’s morning drama: The intersection of memory and imagination in Kobe
This article shows how the interplay of local memories, the imagined worlds of media products and tourism can redefine the image of a particular place. Using the concepts of ‘places of memory’ (Nora) and ‘places of the imagination’ (Reijnders), the author analyses how NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Kazamidori (The Weather Vane) (1977–1978) had a significant impact on the development of Kobe’s Kitanochō district. The fusion of local memory and the …
Between Soft Power and Propaganda: The Korean Military Drama Descendants of the Sun
This article examines how propaganda plays a role in a nation’s soft power strategy and how cultural and ideological propagation takes place in a global media environment through consideration of the South Korean TV drama Descendants of the Sun (2016). First, a theoretical framework juxtaposing state-led soft power and propaganda is presented. Second, the article summarizes the history of Korean films and dramas in relation to propaganda. Finally…
Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema
Creating the sacred places of pop culture in the age of mobility: Fan pilgrimages and authenticity through performance
This paper clarifies the nature of Korean fans’ sacred meaning-making in popular culture pilgrimages. Travel to locations which have significance in pop culture has become a trend among fans. Interestingly, many fans do performances, sometimes ritual-like, at the destinations to express the value of the pop culture. Such ritual-like performances cross national borders in the age of mobility. Based on anthropological research, the paper analyses h…
Real in virtual or virtual in real? Intersecting virtual and real experience in open-world video games and heritage tourism
The increasing numbers of open-world games provide a sense of immersion, as if users were in a virtual world, by guaranteeing free movement within that world. One example is Ghost of Tsushima, a game developed by Sucker Punch Productions in the United States and released in 2020. The game was created by adding fictional elements to the historical facts surrounding the Mongol Empire’s invasion of the Japanese island of Tsushima in 1274. The develo…
Island studies and socio-economic development policies in East Asia
The globalization of island studies has resulted in a greater recognition by island studies scholars of the need for more regional-based island research to encompass the diversity of island knowledge and experiences. Island research in East Asia provides examples of both English and native language perspectives across four distinct socio-cultural contexts: Japan, South Korea, the Chinese mainland, and Taiwan. Historical literature and contemporar…
Dark tourism as educational tourism: The case of ‘hope tourism’ in Fukushima, Japan
This article examines how dark tourism has been adopted and developed in Japan and suggests how it can be linked to educational tourism, through the case of a ‘Hope Tourism Guided Tour’ held in Fukushima in 2018. In Japan, dark tourism has developed into a new form, nested within educational tourism (or an educational tourism that contains elements of dark tourism within it). This is connected to the long history of educational tourism and to the…
Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour
Between Soft Power and Propaganda: The Korean Military Drama Descendants of the Sun
This article examines how propaganda plays a role in a nation’s soft power strategy and how cultural and ideological propagation takes place in a global media environment through consideration of the South Korean TV drama Descendants of the Sun (2016). First, a theoretical framework juxtaposing state-led soft power and propaganda is presented. Second, the article summarizes the history of Korean films and dramas in relation to propaganda. Finally…
Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema
Between Soft Power and Propaganda: The Korean Military Drama Descendants of the Sun
This article examines how propaganda plays a role in a nation’s soft power strategy and how cultural and ideological propagation takes place in a global media environment through consideration of the South Korean TV drama Descendants of the Sun (2016). First, a theoretical framework juxtaposing state-led soft power and propaganda is presented. Second, the article summarizes the history of Korean films and dramas in relation to propaganda. Finally…
Tourism and local identity generated by NHK’s morning drama: The intersection of memory and imagination in Kobe
This article shows how the interplay of local memories, the imagined worlds of media products and tourism can redefine the image of a particular place. Using the concepts of ‘places of memory’ (Nora) and ‘places of the imagination’ (Reijnders), the author analyses how NHK’s morning drama (asadora) Kazamidori (The Weather Vane) (1977–1978) had a significant impact on the development of Kobe’s Kitanochō district. The fusion of local memory and the …
Creative fandoms and the mediatized sacred sites
This chapter illustrates the process and structures of creating mediatized “sacred sites” of pop culture in the Internet age via what we term “creative fandom” (fan communities with active creativity). Through these two cases of Japanese game/animation The Idolmaster (2005) fans visiting Yayoiken Restaurant in Takatsuki city, Osaka, Japan, and the fan-made sacred site of the Japanese anime film Kiki’s Delivery Service in Tasmania, Australia, this…
Creating the sacred places of pop culture in the age of mobility: Fan pilgrimages and authenticity through performance
This paper clarifies the nature of Korean fans’ sacred meaning-making in popular culture pilgrimages. Travel to locations which have significance in pop culture has become a trend among fans. Interestingly, many fans do performances, sometimes ritual-like, at the destinations to express the value of the pop culture. Such ritual-like performances cross national borders in the age of mobility. Based on anthropological research, the paper analyses h…
Dark tourism as educational tourism: The case of ‘hope tourism’ in Fukushima, Japan
This article examines how dark tourism has been adopted and developed in Japan and suggests how it can be linked to educational tourism, through the case of a ‘Hope Tourism Guided Tour’ held in Fukushima in 2018. In Japan, dark tourism has developed into a new form, nested within educational tourism (or an educational tourism that contains elements of dark tourism within it). This is connected to the long history of educational tourism and to the…
Constructing and Consuming Space in Detective Fiction Tourism: The Case of the Detective Conan Mystery Tour
Island studies and socio-economic development policies in East Asia
The globalization of island studies has resulted in a greater recognition by island studies scholars of the need for more regional-based island research to encompass the diversity of island knowledge and experiences. Island research in East Asia provides examples of both English and native language perspectives across four distinct socio-cultural contexts: Japan, South Korea, the Chinese mainland, and Taiwan. Historical literature and contemporar…
Staging mediatized tourism places as imagined playscapes: The crucial role of a tour designer
This study examines how a mediatized space becomes a “staged” place to play with, and provides a symbolic platform for performance-based, tourism experiences from a tour program design perspective. It focuses on the Detective Conan Mystery Tour, a derivative tourism product of Detective Conan, a Japanese mystery fiction media franchise. Applying the concept of “playscapes” as the theoretical lens, the findings indicate that creating fiction-drive…
Real in virtual or virtual in real? Intersecting virtual and real experience in open-world video games and heritage tourism
The increasing numbers of open-world games provide a sense of immersion, as if users were in a virtual world, by guaranteeing free movement within that world. One example is Ghost of Tsushima, a game developed by Sucker Punch Productions in the United States and released in 2020. The game was created by adding fictional elements to the historical facts surrounding the Mongol Empire’s invasion of the Japanese island of Tsushima in 1274. The develo…
Art (8 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Tourism (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)