From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry - Paperback

by Gooyong Kim (Author), Douglas Kellner (Foreword by)

Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols' individualism and identity formation through the lens of Korea's cultural politics.

Author Biography

Gooyong Kim is assistant professor of communication arts at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.