More detail on this Friday’s talk at SOAS: Friday, November 6th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Dr. Stephen Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington “Asia! Asia!” – South Korean Popular Culture and “Asia” in the New Millennium Abstract: In 2007, the number of foreign nationals in South Korea surpassed 1,000,000 for the first time: labour migration … [Read More]
Author: Stephen Epstein
Collections that include work by Stephen Epstein
- Snapshots and Soundbites of Korean Culture, Routledge 2026
- South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea, Routledge 2020
- Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations, Routledge 2020
- K-pop – The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry, Routledge 2017
- Korean Screen Cultures: Interrogating Cinema, TV, Music and Online Games, Peter Lang 2015
- The Korean Popular Culture Reader, Duke University Press 2014
- Korean Pop Music – Riding the Wave, Global Oriental 2006
Keith Howard (ed): Korean Pop Music – riding the wave
Keith Howard (ed): Korean Pop Music – riding the wave Global Oriental, 2006, 250 pp A very readable introduction to the history of Korean popular music. While the book is a collection of articles by different scholars, careful selection ensures that there’s no duplication and that the coverage is chronological. And for once in a … [Read More]