Wrestling with or Embracing Digitization in the Music Industry

The Contrasting Business Strategies of J-pop and K-pop

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7529682
AutoresJimmyn Parc (0000-0002-4836-460X, Seoul National University, autor correspondente), Nobuko Kawashima (Doshisha University)
Ano2018
Fascículo30/31
Data de publicação2018-08-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKritika Kultura (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1656-152X • E-ISSN: 2094-6937
EditoraAteneo de Manila University (PUBLISHER • PH)
DOI10.13185/kk2018.03003
OpenAlexW2793377684
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas10

Digitization has significantly changed the process for producing and consuming music: from analogue to digital, albums to songs, possess to access, audio to visual, and end products to promotional products. In this globalized digital era, actively embracing digitization would likely help enhance the competitiveness of the music industry. The rise of K-pop and the decline of J-pop clearly demonstrate the different results from whether to embrace or wrestle with digitization. The Korean music industry recognized changes brought on by digitization earlier and was more active in responding with effective strategies. By contrast, the Japanese music industry did not immediately respond to these changes but stuck to its rent-seeking behavior in order to take advantage of its larger market size and “sophisticated” copyright regime. The implications from this paper is that business activities are the core element for creating and enhancing competitiveness of the music industries

Advertising · Art · Audio signal · Business · Digital audio · Digitization · Music industry · Order (exchange · Telecommunications · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Engineering · Marketing