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Youjeong Oh

Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place

Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place

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Pop City explores how Korean television dramas and K-pop music are used to promote urban and rural places in South Korea, arguing that pop culture-featured place marketing dominates urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.

Format: Hardback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2018
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture–featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture.

By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, Pop City shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. Oh demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop culture–mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 162 x 237 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501730719

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