Semiotic research about dominant and counter part Myths, ‘Dragon rises from small stream’ and ‘Spoon class theory’ on South Korea: focused on ‘Superstar K2’ and ‘Show me the money 4’, the South Korean survival reality audition programs

강대한,; Jueng, Woon Gap

doi:10.35731/kpca.2017..46.004

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“…In Japan, a few influential books penned by social scientists popularized the idea that Japan is a 'gap society' (kakusa shakai), denoting increasing economic polarization (Sato, 2000;Tachibanaki, 1998), and the term was chosen as one of the top 10 buzzwords of the year in 2006. In South Korea, economic polarization, 'yangukhwa', became the keyword in discussion concerning inequality (Kim, 2009), and a number of folklore theories described the unequal structure of opportunities in the country (Kang and Jueng, 2017;Kim and Han, 2019). Thus, there might have been a rise in the public discussion of inequality of various sorts in both societies.…”

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National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021

Asahina,

Roh,

Yang

2023

International Sociology

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This article examines how newspaper coverage of inequality differs in Japan and South Korea, countries with comparable levels and nature of income inequality, but whose citizens maintain different attitudes toward it. Analyzing 18,630 articles in six major newspapers from 1990 to 2021, our analysis found (1) Japanese and South Korean newspapers report surprisingly little about inequality even in a period of growing inequality; (2) while South Korean newspapers significantly increased their coverage of within-country inequality in the 2010s, such a trend is not found in Japan; (3) progressive newspapers largely drive the increase in the coverage of inequality in South Korea. We also look closely into the four major topics within inequality coverage – income, employment, generation, and gender – to elaborate on qualitative differences in the ways inequality is discussed in newspapers in both societies. Our findings suggest that there exist nationally specific patterns of inequality coverage and offer important implications for the ongoing discussion about economic inequality in East Asia, as well as the literature on subjective inequality.

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National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021

Asahina,

Roh,

Yang

2023

International Sociology

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Industrial Hip Hop against the Hip Hop Industry

Kim

Lee

2021

JWPM

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Since its humble beginnings about three decades ago, South Korea’s national hip hop scene (gukhip) has grown to a formidable industry that runs the gamut from cutting-edge underground artists to mainstream K-pop idol rappers. In recent years, the cable TV audition programme Show Me the Money (SMTM) has become the gukhip industry’s ultimate gatekeeper as many aspiring hip hop artists increasingly depend on making it on the show to advance their careers. In this article, we focus on XXX, an underground hip hop duo who bucks this commercial trend of gukhip in both sound and message. Their noise-filled beats and shifting grooves echo the avant garde aesthetics and confrontational attitudes of industrial music, and their words are harshly critical of the money-driven gukhip culture as represented by SMTM. We provide a musicological analysis of XXX’s own version of industrial hip hop and examine what makes their “outsider” status sustainable vis-à-vis the gukhip industry.

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Semiotic research about dominant and counter part Myths, ‘Dragon rises from small stream’ and ‘Spoon class theory’ on South Korea: focused on ‘Superstar K2’ and ‘Show me the money 4’, the South Korean survival reality audition programs

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021

National patterns of inequality coverage: Japanese and South Korean newspapers, 1990–2021

Industrial Hip Hop against the Hip Hop Industry

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