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ID8915
NOMEK Yoon
PRENOMESK
SOBRENOMEYoon
ASSINATURAYOON K
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0003-3055-885X
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS37
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES220
TOTAL COMO AUTOR37
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2003
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H8
  • Social imaginaries of digital technology in South Korea during the Covid‐19 pandemic

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Policy & Internet•2024

    This study examines common themes identified in discourses about digital technology–driven responses to COVID‐19 in South Korea. By examining how digital technology is represented and thematised in policy and news discourses, the study explores how particular modes of society and societal order are circulated and particular visions of the postpandemic society emerge. By employing the notion of social imaginary as a collective vision and practice …

  • Exploring cultural hybridity, questioning cultural appropriation

    Open Access•K Yoon, Camila Alexandra Labarta Garcia•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2024•Citada por: 4•Referências: 11

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Lima, Peru, this study explores how Latin fans think about and negotiate K-pop industries’ citations of Latin pop music tropes. It addresses the ways in which K-pop's practices of citing other cultures are perceived by the audience whose culture is cited. The Peruvian fans in this study suggest that the citations of other cultures observed in K-pop offer versatile entry points for them to easil…

  • Evolving yet contentious transcultural fanscapes

    Open Access•K Yoon, Camila Alexandra Labarta Garcia•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2024•Referências: 27

    Global fans’ engagement with K-pop (South Korean pop music) demonstrates how audiences’ daily lives and identities are interwoven with transcultural media. This study explores how global K-pop fan cultures have evolved along with the genre’s expansion overseas, with particular reference to Peruvian fans in the Global South context. Drawing on Peruvian fans’ accounts of the global K-pop fanscapes – the universes experienced and mediated through fa…

  • Living in micro‐networks

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Migration•2024•Referências: 15

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with South Korean (Korean hereinafter) migrants in Western Canada, this study examines the migrants' sense of belonging and social networking practices during their post‐migration settlement and adaptation, including during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The study focuses on a relatively recent cohort of Korean labour migrants whose main motivation for migration was to explore flexible and relaxed ways of living in the h…

  • The Lure of Cultural Authenticity

    Open Access•Benjamin M Han, D Y Jin et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2024•Referências: 4

    Despite Netflix’s status as a dominant global streaming service, it is irrefutable that the platform has facilitated the circulation of media content from different national markets to its subscribers around the world. This increased circulation has been accompanied by the platforms’ exploration of local cultures for global audiences. Specifically, Netflix has sought to represent and repackage local cultures in allegedly “authentic” ways. Drawing…

  • De/Constructing the soft power discourse in Hallyu

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Communication Research and Practice•2023

    This study examines the discourse surrounding the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as Hallyu (the Korean Wave), and its relationship to the country’s soft power through a discourse analysis of Korean news and social media. Specifically, the study explores how Hallyu was addressed as Korea’s soft power tool during the COVID-19 pandemic, when it gained even greater popularity overseas through digital means. The study quest…

  • Platformization of the Korean Wave

    D Y Jin, K Yoon et al.•ARTICLE•Communication Research and Practice•2023

    By employing the platformization of cultural production from a critical political economy approach, this article analyzes the transition of the Korean cultural industries to the platform-driven phase of Hallyu. By discussing the highly transnationalized and platformized Korean Wave in the shifting global media environment, it examines how Netflix platformizes and appropriates the Korean broadcasting industry through various strategies, such as in…

  • K-Pop Trans/Nationalism

    K Yoon•CHAPTER•Routledge Handbook of Asian…•2022

    Drawing on an analysis of recent global flows of South Korean pop music (K-pop), this chapter examines how global cultural flows engage with transnational and national forces. The global K-pop phenomenon effectively shows cultural dimensions of transnationalism, in which transnational and national forces constantly interweave in digital media–driven popular cultural practices. The global emergence and circulation of K-pop question the Western-cen…

  • Diasporic Hallyu

    Open Access•K Yoon•BOOK•Diasporic Hallyu•2022

    This open access book examines how diasporic audiences consume, disseminate, and produce pop cultural imaginations of non-Western origin

  • Between universes

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Communication and the Public•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 16

    Transnational fans of South Korean pop music (K-pop) are known for their cosmopolitan sense of belonging and community beyond geocultural boundaries. Academics who are also fans (i.e. aca-fans) and who have conducted recent ethnographic studies have developed a favorable perspective on the potential of global K-pop fandom. While acknowledging the alternative force generated by the grassroots K-pop universe, this article suggests that transnationa…

  • Micro-celebrities from the North

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•First Monday•2021

    By analyzing YouTube channels of young North Korean defectors, this article examines the cultural meanings of social media in these marginalized young people’s resettled lives. The article focuses on four YouTube channels managed by four young North Korean defectors living in South Korea. The four channels show how defectors, a majority of whom remain almost invisible in the South Korean public sphere, use digital platforms to display their ident…

  • Digital dilemmas in the (post-)pandemic state

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Digital Media & Policy•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    Drawing on South Korea’s response to COVID-19, this article examines how the digital measures that were implemented by the nation state during the pandemic intensified the dilemma between public safety and information rights. South Korea’s highly praised handling of COVID-19 raises the question of how far digital technology can infiltrate everyday life for the sake of public safety and how citizens can negotiate the rapid digital transformation o…

  • Discourse of the Post-Covid 19 New Deal in South Korea

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•East Asia•2021•Referências: 6

  • K-pop pedagogy in the digital platform era

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Journal of Media…•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)

  • North Korean Defectors’ Self-representation as the Politics of Refusal

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Critical Arts•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 23

    While the number of North Korean defectors in South Korea has increased, their portrayal in the mainstream media remains marginal and biased. Given this context, this article explores how North Korean defectors have gradually engaged in self-representation through new media technologies, such as personal broadcasting on digital platforms. In so doing, it reveals that the defectors at least partially challenge the dominant representation or lack o…

  • Consuming the Contra-Flow of K-pop in Spain

    K Yoon, Wang Min et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2020•Citada por: 8•Referências: 17

    South Korean idol pop music (K-pop) has been circulated transnationally and has attracted fans globally. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Spain, this article explores how the geo-cultural difference and distance signified by K-pop are consumed in the Spanish context, in which non-Western cultural forms are often othered and marginalised. The article shows that, while K-pop is stereotyped and racialized as a Chinos (Chinese) co…

  • Multicultural digital media practices of 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Asian and Pacific migration journal•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in Toronto, Canada, this study examines how the young adult children of Korean immigrants, also known as 1.5-generation immigrants, explore multicultural senses of belonging and identity through digital media practices. This study reveals that although young immigrants’ capabilities to choose from different forms of cultural content may be enhanced by digital media, they may be subject to structural for…

  • Diasporic youth culture of K-pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2018•Citada por: 5•Referências: 12

    This study examines how diasporic Korean youth engage with the recent global circulation of South Korean pop music (‘K-pop’). It explores how young diasporic Koreans negotiate K-pop as an ethnic and/or global cultural form in their transition to adulthood. Drawing on interviews with young people of Korean heritage in Canada, the study addresses how a diasporic sound, which connects the nostalgia for the ancestral homeland and the global mediascap…

  • Transnational fandom in the making

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Communication Gazette•2018•Citada por: 21•Referências: 12

    This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Vancouver, Canada, the study explores (1) how young fans encounter K-pop and negotiate its cultural distance, (2) how K-pop and its fandom are stereotyped by non-fans, (3) how the stereotypes are negotiated by the fans, …

  • Global Imagination of K-Pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2017•Citada por: 30•Referências: 21

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with Canada-based K-pop (contemporary South Korean “idol pop” music) fans, this study discusses how transnational fans experience and interpret K-pop as a form of cultural hybridity that facilitates global imagination. In particular, the study explores how fans consume and translate transnational pop music while engaging with different modes of global imagination in their everyday lives. In so doing, the study co…

  • Korean Migrants' Use of the Internet in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Citada por: 3•Referências: 22

  • The Local Sociality and Emotion of Jeong in Koreans’ Media Practices

    K Yoon•CHAPTER•Asian Perspectives on Digital…•2016

    This chapter explores how the locally specific cultural norm of jeong is articulated within emerging media environments and how the concept can help to illuminate Asians' media practices. It suggests that jeong may not necessarily fade away with the emergence of mediated communication; thus it is important to address how this local norm is imbricate with the evolution of communication technologies. The chapter critiques and cautions against essen…

  • The Gamification of Mobile Communication among Young Smartphone Users in Seoul

    K Yoon, D Y Jin•ARTICLE•Asiascape Digital Asia•2016

    Drawing on the empirical findings, the present study discusses how mobile media and gaming practices are integrated with young people’s everyday lives in Seoul, Korea. In particular, the present study aims to critically examine mobile gaming as a social practice, by adopting the notion of “gamification”. The study has found that users coped with urban everyday life by appropriating mobile apps and thus engaging with the gamification of mobile com…

  • The migrant lives of the digital generation

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Continuum•2016•Citada por: 4•Referências: 7

    This study explores how young Korean migrants appropriate information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Canada. Drawing on qualitative interview data, the study focuses on Korean ‘digital generation’ immigrants who grew up with the rapid development of the ICT industry in Korea. By addressing the specific demographic of young migrants who have already been saturated by digital media in their pre-migration childhood, the study explores how …

  • The media practice of ‘KaTalk’ in the face of Facebook

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Critical Arts•2016•Citada por: 1•Referências: 22

    This study explores how young people in transnational contexts use communication applications (apps) through mobile platforms built into the smartphone. Drawing on qualitative interviews with young adults from transnational South Korean families in Canada, the study examines how young people use, and create meanings with, different apps in transnational contexts. In the study, the participants frequently used the Korean-based mobile platform of K…

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  • Transnational youth mobility in the neoliberal economy of experience

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2014•Citada por: 47•Referências: 9

    An increasing number of young people are making long-stay travels while postponing their transition to adulthood and seeking ‘global experience’. Among various forms of long-stay travel, the working holiday has been popular among young people looking for opportunities to work during travel. In order to empirically explore how global experience is negotiated by young travellers, this study analyses the narratives of 30 South Korean working holiday…

  • The social mediascape of transnational Korean pop culture

    Open Access•D Y Jin, K Yoon•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2014•Citada por: 37•Referências: 20

    While it has been more than 15 years since the Korean pop culture phenomenon known as the Korean wave or hallyu emerged, academic analyses have not sufficiently addressed its dimension as a media environment from a global perspective. In this regard, drawing on qualitative interviews with North American fans of the recent Korean wave, this study explores how the hallyu phenomenon is integrated into a social media-driven cultural landscape, which …

  • Global Imagination of K-Pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2017•Citada por: 30•Referências: 21

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with Canada-based K-pop (contemporary South Korean “idol pop” music) fans, this study discusses how transnational fans experience and interpret K-pop as a form of cultural hybridity that facilitates global imagination. In particular, the study explores how fans consume and translate transnational pop music while engaging with different modes of global imagination in their everyday lives. In so doing, the study co…

  • Transnational fandom in the making

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Communication Gazette•2018•Citada por: 21•Referências: 12

    This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Vancouver, Canada, the study explores (1) how young fans encounter K-pop and negotiate its cultural distance, (2) how K-pop and its fandom are stereotyped by non-fans, (3) how the stereotypes are negotiated by the fans, …

  • Retraditionalizing the Mobile

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2003•Citada por: 15•Referências: 4

    This article, based on ethnographic research in Seoul, South Korea, proposes a `peripheral' and local perspective on teenage mobile phone users and sociality. The teenage users show that the mobile phone, which has often been represented as an example of global imagination technologies, is here appropriated in localized ways in which the traditional form of sociality, Cheong, is rearticulated. After reviewing the recent literature on young people…

  • Consuming the Contra-Flow of K-pop in Spain

    K Yoon, Wang Min et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2020•Citada por: 8•Referências: 17

    South Korean idol pop music (K-pop) has been circulated transnationally and has attracted fans globally. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Spain, this article explores how the geo-cultural difference and distance signified by K-pop are consumed in the Spanish context, in which non-Western cultural forms are often othered and marginalised. The article shows that, while K-pop is stereotyped and racialized as a Chinos (Chinese) co…

  • A National Construction of Transnational Mobility in the 'Overseas Working Holiday Phenomenon' in Korea

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2015•Citada por: 8•Referências: 11

    This study examines the ‘overseas working holiday phenomenon’ in Korea, drawing on a content analysis of policy and media discourses and qualitative interviews with Korean working holidaymakers in Canada. The study reveals a significant disjuncture between popular representations of transnational mobility and the participants' actual experiences of it. The process of repackaging youth as a potentially ‘global generation’ in the recent discourse o…

  • Reimagining smartphones in a local mediascape

    Open Access•D Y Jin, K Yoon•ARTICLE•Convergence The International…•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 2

    Drawing upon in-depth interviews with young smartphone users, as well as socioeconomic analyses, this study examines a localized media landscape emerging with the smartphone and its applications (apps). With particular reference to young Koreans’ engagement with the popular local app platform, KakaoTalk, the study explores how smartphone technology is reimagined in a local context. The KakaoTalk-scape shows that smartphones and their apps are art…

  • The Korean Wave Phenomenon in Asian Diasporas in Canada

    K Yoon, D Y Jin•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 26

    This study explores diasporic Asian young people's engagement with the recent wave of Korean pop culture, also known as the Korean Wave, in Canada. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto and Vancouver, the study examines how transnational cultural flow is articulated with social media and ethnic sociality. In the study, while the transnational flow of Korean media content was largely reliant on social media, it was renegotiated by th…

  • Between universes

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Communication and the Public•2022•Citada por: 6•Referências: 16

    Transnational fans of South Korean pop music (K-pop) are known for their cosmopolitan sense of belonging and community beyond geocultural boundaries. Academics who are also fans (i.e. aca-fans) and who have conducted recent ethnographic studies have developed a favorable perspective on the potential of global K-pop fandom. While acknowledging the alternative force generated by the grassroots K-pop universe, this article suggests that transnationa…

  • Diasporic youth culture of K-pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2018•Citada por: 5•Referências: 12

    This study examines how diasporic Korean youth engage with the recent global circulation of South Korean pop music (‘K-pop’). It explores how young diasporic Koreans negotiate K-pop as an ethnic and/or global cultural form in their transition to adulthood. Drawing on interviews with young people of Korean heritage in Canada, the study addresses how a diasporic sound, which connects the nostalgia for the ancestral homeland and the global mediascap…

  • Cultural Practices of “Ordinary” Youth

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Asian Studies Review•2006•Citada por: 5•Referências: 9

    In the field of youth cultural studies, it is increasingly suggested that globalisation accelerates the process of individualisation, which constructs “young people as self-determining, and youth c

  • Exploring cultural hybridity, questioning cultural appropriation

    Open Access•K Yoon, Camila Alexandra Labarta Garcia•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2024•Citada por: 4•Referências: 11

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Lima, Peru, this study explores how Latin fans think about and negotiate K-pop industries’ citations of Latin pop music tropes. It addresses the ways in which K-pop's practices of citing other cultures are perceived by the audience whose culture is cited. The Peruvian fans in this study suggest that the citations of other cultures observed in K-pop offer versatile entry points for them to easil…

  • The migrant lives of the digital generation

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Continuum•2016•Citada por: 4•Referências: 7

    This study explores how young Korean migrants appropriate information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Canada. Drawing on qualitative interview data, the study focuses on Korean ‘digital generation’ immigrants who grew up with the rapid development of the ICT industry in Korea. By addressing the specific demographic of young migrants who have already been saturated by digital media in their pre-migration childhood, the study explores how …

  • Korean Migrants' Use of the Internet in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Citada por: 3•Referências: 22

  • The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2006•Citada por: 3•Referências: 7

    This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study…

  • Multicultural digital media practices of 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Asian and Pacific migration journal•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in Toronto, Canada, this study examines how the young adult children of Korean immigrants, also known as 1.5-generation immigrants, explore multicultural senses of belonging and identity through digital media practices. This study reveals that although young immigrants’ capabilities to choose from different forms of cultural content may be enhanced by digital media, they may be subject to structural for…

  • Local Sociality in Young People's Mobile Communications

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Childhood•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 21

    Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article explores how young Koreans appropriate mobile phones. By examining the role of local norms of sociality among young people, the study shows that this 'individualizing' technology is articulated through 'traditionalizing' forces. Despite dominant representations of young people's individualization via the popular use of new technologies, young Koreans in the study internalize and negotiate local norms o…

  • Digital dilemmas in the (post-)pandemic state

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Digital Media & Policy•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    Drawing on South Korea’s response to COVID-19, this article examines how the digital measures that were implemented by the nation state during the pandemic intensified the dilemma between public safety and information rights. South Korea’s highly praised handling of COVID-19 raises the question of how far digital technology can infiltrate everyday life for the sake of public safety and how citizens can negotiate the rapid digital transformation o…

  • K-pop pedagogy in the digital platform era

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Journal of Media…•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)

  • North Korean Defectors’ Self-representation as the Politics of Refusal

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Critical Arts•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 23

    While the number of North Korean defectors in South Korea has increased, their portrayal in the mainstream media remains marginal and biased. Given this context, this article explores how North Korean defectors have gradually engaged in self-representation through new media technologies, such as personal broadcasting on digital platforms. In so doing, it reveals that the defectors at least partially challenge the dominant representation or lack o…

  • The media practice of ‘KaTalk’ in the face of Facebook

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Critical Arts•2016•Citada por: 1•Referências: 22

    This study explores how young people in transnational contexts use communication applications (apps) through mobile platforms built into the smartphone. Drawing on qualitative interviews with young adults from transnational South Korean families in Canada, the study examines how young people use, and create meanings with, different apps in transnational contexts. In the study, the participants frequently used the Korean-based mobile platform of K…

  • Women and Human Development

    Open Access•K Yoon, Soon‐young Yoon et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2003•Citada por: 1

    Women and Human Development. Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 303 pp

  • Retraditionalizing the Mobile

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2003•Citada por: 15•Referências: 4

    This article, based on ethnographic research in Seoul, South Korea, proposes a `peripheral' and local perspective on teenage mobile phone users and sociality. The teenage users show that the mobile phone, which has often been represented as an example of global imagination technologies, is here appropriated in localized ways in which the traditional form of sociality, Cheong, is rearticulated. After reviewing the recent literature on young people…

  • Women and Human Development

    Open Access•K Yoon, Soon‐young Yoon et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2003•Citada por: 1

    Women and Human Development. Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 303 pp

  • The making of neo-Confucian cyberkids

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2006•Citada por: 3•Referências: 7

    This article addresses how young people are represented in popular discourses of mobile phone technology and what this representation implies for the local positioning of youth. After reviewing the ways in which representations of youth and technology have been discussed in previous studies, the research reported in this article analyzes different discursive constructions of young mobile phone users in South Korea between 1997 and 2002. The study…

  • Cultural Practices of “Ordinary” Youth

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Asian Studies Review•2006•Citada por: 5•Referências: 9

    In the field of youth cultural studies, it is increasingly suggested that globalisation accelerates the process of individualisation, which constructs “young people as self-determining, and youth c

  • Local Sociality in Young People's Mobile Communications

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Childhood•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 21

    Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article explores how young Koreans appropriate mobile phones. By examining the role of local norms of sociality among young people, the study shows that this 'individualizing' technology is articulated through 'traditionalizing' forces. Despite dominant representations of young people's individualization via the popular use of new technologies, young Koreans in the study internalize and negotiate local norms o…

  • The racialised mobility of transnational working holidays

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Identities•2014

    This study explores how transnational working holidaymakers imagine and negotiate their identity positions in ethno-racial structures of the host society. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 53 Korean working holidaymakers in Canada, the study addresses how the young people are racialised by being exposed to the ‘white gaze’ and re-ethnicised by engaging with the Korean diaspora. The study examines how the transnational mobility of working hol…

  • Transnational youth mobility in the neoliberal economy of experience

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2014•Citada por: 47•Referências: 9

    An increasing number of young people are making long-stay travels while postponing their transition to adulthood and seeking ‘global experience’. Among various forms of long-stay travel, the working holiday has been popular among young people looking for opportunities to work during travel. In order to empirically explore how global experience is negotiated by young travellers, this study analyses the narratives of 30 South Korean working holiday…

  • Affordances and negotiations of the digital reputation society

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Continuum•2014•Referências: 2

    This study analyses the popular teaching evaluation site RateMyProfessors.com as a social, technological and cultural form of the digital reputation society. The site's socioeconomic context shows the process of media integration and commodification, while its technological aspect reveals the salience of certain pedagogic features, such as easiness, clarity, standard and entertainment. In comparison, the site's reviewer postings show how rating s…

  • Reimagining smartphones in a local mediascape

    Open Access•D Y Jin, K Yoon•ARTICLE•Convergence The International…•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 2

    Drawing upon in-depth interviews with young smartphone users, as well as socioeconomic analyses, this study examines a localized media landscape emerging with the smartphone and its applications (apps). With particular reference to young Koreans’ engagement with the popular local app platform, KakaoTalk, the study explores how smartphone technology is reimagined in a local context. The KakaoTalk-scape shows that smartphones and their apps are art…

  • The social mediascape of transnational Korean pop culture

    Open Access•D Y Jin, K Yoon•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2014•Citada por: 37•Referências: 20

    While it has been more than 15 years since the Korean pop culture phenomenon known as the Korean wave or hallyu emerged, academic analyses have not sufficiently addressed its dimension as a media environment from a global perspective. In this regard, drawing on qualitative interviews with North American fans of the recent Korean wave, this study explores how the hallyu phenomenon is integrated into a social media-driven cultural landscape, which …

  • A National Construction of Transnational Mobility in the 'Overseas Working Holiday Phenomenon' in Korea

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2015•Citada por: 8•Referências: 11

    This study examines the ‘overseas working holiday phenomenon’ in Korea, drawing on a content analysis of policy and media discourses and qualitative interviews with Korean working holidaymakers in Canada. The study reveals a significant disjuncture between popular representations of transnational mobility and the participants' actual experiences of it. The process of repackaging youth as a potentially ‘global generation’ in the recent discourse o…

  • The Local Sociality and Emotion of Jeong in Koreans’ Media Practices

    K Yoon•CHAPTER•Asian Perspectives on Digital…•2016

    This chapter explores how the locally specific cultural norm of jeong is articulated within emerging media environments and how the concept can help to illuminate Asians' media practices. It suggests that jeong may not necessarily fade away with the emergence of mediated communication; thus it is important to address how this local norm is imbricate with the evolution of communication technologies. The chapter critiques and cautions against essen…

  • The Gamification of Mobile Communication among Young Smartphone Users in Seoul

    K Yoon, D Y Jin•ARTICLE•Asiascape Digital Asia•2016

    Drawing on the empirical findings, the present study discusses how mobile media and gaming practices are integrated with young people’s everyday lives in Seoul, Korea. In particular, the present study aims to critically examine mobile gaming as a social practice, by adopting the notion of “gamification”. The study has found that users coped with urban everyday life by appropriating mobile apps and thus engaging with the gamification of mobile com…

  • The migrant lives of the digital generation

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Continuum•2016•Citada por: 4•Referências: 7

    This study explores how young Korean migrants appropriate information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Canada. Drawing on qualitative interview data, the study focuses on Korean ‘digital generation’ immigrants who grew up with the rapid development of the ICT industry in Korea. By addressing the specific demographic of young migrants who have already been saturated by digital media in their pre-migration childhood, the study explores how …

  • The media practice of ‘KaTalk’ in the face of Facebook

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Critical Arts•2016•Citada por: 1•Referências: 22

    This study explores how young people in transnational contexts use communication applications (apps) through mobile platforms built into the smartphone. Drawing on qualitative interviews with young adults from transnational South Korean families in Canada, the study examines how young people use, and create meanings with, different apps in transnational contexts. In the study, the participants frequently used the Korean-based mobile platform of K…

  • The Korean Wave Phenomenon in Asian Diasporas in Canada

    K Yoon, D Y Jin•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2016•Citada por: 7•Referências: 26

    This study explores diasporic Asian young people's engagement with the recent wave of Korean pop culture, also known as the Korean Wave, in Canada. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in Toronto and Vancouver, the study examines how transnational cultural flow is articulated with social media and ethnic sociality. In the study, while the transnational flow of Korean media content was largely reliant on social media, it was renegotiated by th…

  • Global Imagination of K-Pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2017•Citada por: 30•Referências: 21

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with Canada-based K-pop (contemporary South Korean “idol pop” music) fans, this study discusses how transnational fans experience and interpret K-pop as a form of cultural hybridity that facilitates global imagination. In particular, the study explores how fans consume and translate transnational pop music while engaging with different modes of global imagination in their everyday lives. In so doing, the study co…

  • Korean Migrants' Use of the Internet in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2017•Citada por: 3•Referências: 22

  • Multicultural digital media practices of 1.5-generation Korean immigrants in Canada

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Asian and Pacific migration journal•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted in Toronto, Canada, this study examines how the young adult children of Korean immigrants, also known as 1.5-generation immigrants, explore multicultural senses of belonging and identity through digital media practices. This study reveals that although young immigrants’ capabilities to choose from different forms of cultural content may be enhanced by digital media, they may be subject to structural for…

  • Diasporic youth culture of K-pop

    K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2018•Citada por: 5•Referências: 12

    This study examines how diasporic Korean youth engage with the recent global circulation of South Korean pop music (‘K-pop’). It explores how young diasporic Koreans negotiate K-pop as an ethnic and/or global cultural form in their transition to adulthood. Drawing on interviews with young people of Korean heritage in Canada, the study addresses how a diasporic sound, which connects the nostalgia for the ancestral homeland and the global mediascap…

  • Transnational fandom in the making

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•International Communication Gazette•2018•Citada por: 21•Referências: 12

    This study examines how young people become, and feel about being, K-pop fans in a Western context, which is geographically and culturally distant from K-pop's place of origin. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Vancouver, Canada, the study explores (1) how young fans encounter K-pop and negotiate its cultural distance, (2) how K-pop and its fandom are stereotyped by non-fans, (3) how the stereotypes are negotiated by the fans, …

  • Consuming the Contra-Flow of K-pop in Spain

    K Yoon, Wang Min et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Intercultural Studies•2020•Citada por: 8•Referências: 17

    South Korean idol pop music (K-pop) has been circulated transnationally and has attracted fans globally. Drawing on qualitative interviews with K-pop fans in Spain, this article explores how the geo-cultural difference and distance signified by K-pop are consumed in the Spanish context, in which non-Western cultural forms are often othered and marginalised. The article shows that, while K-pop is stereotyped and racialized as a Chinos (Chinese) co…

  • Micro-celebrities from the North

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•First Monday•2021

    By analyzing YouTube channels of young North Korean defectors, this article examines the cultural meanings of social media in these marginalized young people’s resettled lives. The article focuses on four YouTube channels managed by four young North Korean defectors living in South Korea. The four channels show how defectors, a majority of whom remain almost invisible in the South Korean public sphere, use digital platforms to display their ident…

  • Digital dilemmas in the (post-)pandemic state

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•Journal of Digital Media & Policy•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    Drawing on South Korea’s response to COVID-19, this article examines how the digital measures that were implemented by the nation state during the pandemic intensified the dilemma between public safety and information rights. South Korea’s highly praised handling of COVID-19 raises the question of how far digital technology can infiltrate everyday life for the sake of public safety and how citizens can negotiate the rapid digital transformation o…

  • Discourse of the Post-Covid 19 New Deal in South Korea

    Open Access•K Yoon•ARTICLE•East Asia•2021•Referências: 6

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