Media, Culture and Korea

Media, Culture and Korea is a concise and insightful textbook covering news media, advertising, film, popular culture and communication culture in South Korea. Media, Culture and Korea also explores how, and to what extent, international news media actually affect to frame the national images of two Koreas. Further this text contains updated and expended coverage of research findings and a review of changing trends in media use of South Korean people including online newspaper, melodrama film, cable TV, and cellular phone, as well as news media. This text is ideal for use in a wide rage of higher-education courses and will be of equal value to anyone interested in global news coverage, international communication and Asian media and popular culture.

Preface

National Images of South Korea and Japan in the News Coverage of The New York Times & Los Angeles Times

Public Journalism in Cyberspace

Framing North Korea in U.S. Newspapers

Between Friend and Foe: The September 11th Attack in South and North Korean News Coverage

Understanding Culture and Characteristics of Cellular Phone Communication in South Korea

Women in Korean Film: A Discourse Analysis of South Korean Melodrama Film

Watchdog or Cheerleader: The Role of News Media in Covering Political Leader’s Speech

An Analysis of Persuading Strategies in Korean Home Shopping Channels

Korean Christianity and Popular Culture 227 The Framing of the “Axis of Evil”

Index

With this collection of research essays, Dr. Jinbong Choi illustrates the importance of a comparative approach to critical media studies. In several chapters, Dr. Choi successfully analyzes power relations that structure South Korean popular culture texts and practices such as home shopping channels. In others, he examines the role of U.S. and South Korean journalism in setting agendas, both those of the public and of news organizations particularly around the tropes of the so-called “war on terror” and the “axis of evil.” By casting these concepts in a critical light informed by cultural studies theory, Dr. Choi has illuminated relationships between news media, popular culture, and foreign policy connections that are all too often overlooked in news media scholarship. Dr. Jinbong Choi’s book offers a fresh and provocative model for understanding the fluidity and influence of media culture in a global context.
_ Dr. Mary Douglas Vavrus(Associate Professor of Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota)

Dr. Jinbong Choi’s Media, Culture and Korea is a collection of articles specifically chosen for scholars and students interested in Korean media and culture. The range of subjects discussed includes the portrayal of Korean and Japanese culture in prominent American newspapers, the Korean Home Shopping Channel and the framing of various subjects related to Korean and Japanese culture. For readers unfamiliar with South or North Korean culture, the book contains an interesting and informative background of their portrayal by the American news media and their societal standards. The primary theories used in the research described in this book include the framing theory, the social construction of reality theory and the uncertainty reduction theory. These theories are important in both qualitative and quantitative studies and, as a result, provide a useful collection of research articles to students in Korean mass media studies. Those doing Korean mass media studies will find this text a valuable addition to their library.
_ Dr. Jane S. McConnell(Chair of Mass Communications Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato)