Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499412 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Björn Boman (0000-0001-7529-6713, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 419-437 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2022.2127622 |
| OpenAlex | W4301395556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
While contemporary South Korea is fairly westernized but represents a lag in the spheres of culture and politics, it is expected that the current Korean wave or Hallyu 4.0 – popular cultural content, diffused as of 2016 – are cumulatively signified by feminist themes, merged with more traditional Korean and East Asian cultural elements. Five representative Hallyu 4.0 dramas are examined here, based on cultural globalization theory (e.g., hybridization), along with a review of some earlier studies of Korean dramas and relevant strands of feminist scholarship. The findings suggest that much of the moderately modern elements found in earlier waves of Korean drama are still present, while liberal or neoliberal feminist elements are manifest in all five shows, although to different degrees. This ideological shift, in part, reflects recent sociocultural changes
Art · Drama · Ideology · Korean Wave · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Popular culture · Scholarship · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Writ · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
Content Analysis
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The case study approach
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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture
The multifold intertextuality in Lee Chang Dong’s burning
Hallyu at a Crossroads
From Oldboy to Burning
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
The applicability of Big Five facets and Dark Tetrad traits on Yukio Mishima’s novel protagonists
We take the red pill, we confront the DickTrix
Politics of Sex Appeal in Advertising
Iamafeminist as the “Mother Tag”
Recovery of the Soldier and the Necropolitics of Peace in Descendants of the Sun
Cool, Creative and Egalitarian? Exploring Gender in Project-Based New Media Work in Euro
Korean Dramas and Films
Feminism and the Discourse of Sexuality in Korea
South Korea under Compressed Modernity
Envisaging the Sociocultural Dynamics of K-pop
K-Pop
Hybridity and the rise of Korean popular culture in Asia
Korean Wave and Korean Women Television Viewers in Singapore
Post‐feminism and popular culture
Parallelization
The Antihero in Popular Culture
Globalisation as Hybridisation
Multiple Exposures
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |