This study explores the birth of the popular radio serial drama under the Cold War doctrine
of national broadcasting in 1950s South Korea. By examining texts, critiques, production?…

From the late 1930s, the Japanese colonial government began taking into account the social
influence of the cinema in colonial Korea, where other entertainment industries had a very?…

The Voice of America, at the root, was a propaganda machine. Though, this does not
indicate that the broadcasting consistently distorted facts and varnish truths. It sometimes?…

As the Second World War came to an end in August 1945, Edwin Levin, the radio columnist
for the progressive New York City daily PM, hoped 'that peacetime radio will apply its?…

The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act made the Voice of America (VOA) responsible for the
dissemination abroad ofinformation about the United States, its peoples, and policies?…

Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's See It Now has long been celebrated as a pioneering
television newsmagazine. The radio series that was its prototype has received?…

Melodrama films dominated the North and South Korean industries in the period between
liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945 and the hardening of dictatorship in the?…

When, in early 1946, plans were being drawn up to reopen the BBC television service, it was
assumed that programmes would once again include the cinema newsreels which had been?…

Observing the paucity of research on political entertainment in Korea, this study has
explored the historical transformation in Korean political entertainment through the lens of?…

The purpose of this article is to recapture the landscape of radio culture in 1950s of Korea,
analysing editorial cartoon related to radio (broadcating) of 1950s. Research findings are as?…