Korea-Japan Popular Culture

“Contemporary Transnational Popular Cultural Traffic between Korea and Japan” by Eun-Young Jung.

It is widely recognized that popular music in Asia is intensely transnational, involving not only import from the West but also the traffic of local pop music among Asian countries.

The dynamics of intra-Asian cultural flows, however, are much more complicated and locality-specific than might first appear. The case of cultural flows between Korea and Japan is particularly complex because of the two countries' antagonism toward each other.

Contrasts in pop musical "exchanges" between Korea and Japan and the different nature of Korean pop music presence in Japan in contrast to the Japanese pop musical presence in Korea in the light of the troubled history of Japan-Korea relations will be discussed.

Dr. Jung is candidate for the East Asia position in Asian Studies.

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Asian Studies Program, Manoa

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Ricardo D. Trimillos, 956-6085, rtrimil@hawaii.edu

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