Auteur: Kyung Hyun Kim

Korean cinema was virtually unavailable to the West during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945), and no film made before 1943 has been recovered even though Korea had an active film-making indust …

Willkommen in Südkorea! Die größte Boyband der Welt, die meistgesehene Netflix-Serie aller Zeiten, der erste nicht-englischsprachige Film, der mit einem Oscar für den besten Film ausgezeichnet wurde: …

Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pr …

In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profo …

"[T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."-Martin Scorsese, from the foreword In the late 1990s, South Korean film …

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu-from a transnati …