Economic Colonialism: Korean Wave (Hallyu) Hegemony

The Korean Wave (Hallyu) in East Asia: A Comparison of Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese Audiences Who Watch Korean TV Dramas*

The major purpose of this study is to find out what factors are responsible for Hallyu, the flow and popularity of Korean popular cultural products in East Asia, and which direction Hallyu is heading for. To do this, recent structural and institutional changes in the region are examined and the 2008 EASS data analyzed. Opening up of the cultural market and development of the mass media industry...

7 The economic impact of colonialism

The immense economic inequality we observe in the world today didn’t happen overnight, or even in the past century. It is the path dependent outcome of a multitude of historical processes, one of the most important of which has been European colonialism. Retracing our steps 500 years, or back to the verge of this colonial project, we see little inequality and small differences between poor and ...

Design Science in Information Systems: Hegemony, Bandwagon, or New Wave?

Design Science has, in the past few years, become a topic of increasing importance especially in the North American academic IS community. Some observers see a new hegemony in the process of forming. Others dispute that, but suggest that Design Science is merely the latest bandwagon rolling through the IS domain. The panel includes supporters of all these views. It will attempt to position Desi...

Hallyu and Modern Vietnamese Culture

Brilliant Hallyu and Plastic Surgery

Hallyu, or “the Korean Wave,” is the name for the tremendous popularity of Korean popular culture that has arisen among Asian countries, including Southeast Asia, Japan, and Taiwan, and even non-Asian countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and South America (1). With the record-breaking ratings of the television drama What is Love All About? which was aired by the China Central Te...