abstract This article examines how North Korean migrants become subjects of their own
narratives in South Korean society, with a focus on gender and class divisions as?…

Korean national identity is defined by nationalist sentiment and a mono-ethnic self-image.
Having turned into a migrant-receiving country, Korea is slowly transforming into a?…

In 2011, the recently established South Korean broadcasting network Channel-A launched
Ije mannareo gamnida (Now on My Way to Meet You), a program whose format brings?…

As Korea is rapidly transitioning from a traditional ethnocentric country of kinship to a
globalized multicultural society of citizenship, Koreans' collective desire to understand their?…

Over the past several decades, South Korean television programs have depicted Asia in a
manner reminiscent of Western Orientalism. Korean television programs featuring Asia as?…

“Representation matters.” Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, star of the popular Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) TV sitcom Kim's Convenience (2016?2021), made this statement in his?…

Steve Seung Jun Yoo (유승준) was a legendary South Korean popular music (hereafter K-
pop) star in the 1990s who had exceptional crossgenerational popularity. Yet his sudden?…

Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration
has become more and more prevalent due to globalization. The cornerstone of this?…

This chapter comparatively examines the gender experiences, tensions, and identities of
Korean American 'returnee'women as they relocate to and engage with South Korean?…

For the last decade, South Korea?a nation that has called itself danil minjok, a phrase that
means ethnically homogenous and racially distinctive?has been transitioning from a?…