Korean Television Dramas in Japan

Imagining “East Asianness” and Consuming “Nostalgia

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ID6138399
AuthorsSoobum Lee (0000-0002-6418-7527, Incheon National University, corresponding author), Soo‐bum Lee (0000-0003-0395-4208, Incheon National University), Hyejung Ju (0000-0002-5504-1585, University of Oklahoma)
Year2010
Volume26
Issue2
Pages77-77
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1225-925X • E-ISSN: 2586-5714
PublisherXMLink (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14431/aw.2010.06.26.2.77
OpenAlexW2214706114
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

In this article, we explored how Japanese Korean drama readings have identified in resonance with their imaginations of spatial locality and postcolonial consciousness. Throughout the in-depth interviews, we discovered how to inscribe Korean dramas into the Japanese audience’s minds as well as what elements in reading Korean dramas particularly empowered the Japanese fans to re-imagine their belonging within the East Asian community. Korean dramas, reproduced by Japanese fans as the cultural text, provoked the imagined, culturally-mixed space in embracing subtly foreign but nostalgic East Asian sentiment. The Japanese audiences of Korean dramas, past and present, have preserved Korean dramas so to happily transport themselves to this dramatic reality. The imagined sense of East Asianness influences the dispersed audiences in Japan; often relating fans to the cultural output from Korea as part of their everyday lives

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