The Korean audio-visual industry has begun producing and exporting domestic television programs and films on a large scale, while reducing imports from the US. The reverse or counter-cultural imperialism, which emphasized the arrival of cultural pluralism, seems to apply in the case of Korea, with the rapid growth of domestic cultural industries and their exports [...]

“The hope that the Internet will promote tolerance, liberated sensibility and socialinclusion is attacked with flair, insight and extensive evidence in this fine book thatwill be of interest to academics and students around the world.” James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London “A must-have collection. Bringing together distinguished authors and emergentvoices, Race After [...]

Some advocates and more than a few critics have misconstrued the political economy of media as a unified field of inquiry. The authors from this volume, by contrast, draw from a more diverse stream of the schools of thought signified by this tradition: Neoclassical Economics, Radical Media Political Economy, Schumpeterian Institutional Political Economy, and the [...]

This text is a contemporary political economic analysis of the various dimensions in the rapid growth of the Korean communication industry, including broadcasting, film, telecommunications, and information technology. As the first comprehensive attempt to analyze the rapid growth and change in the Korean communication systems, this book makes sense of those transitions by looking at [...]