Hegemonic Mimicry

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 transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu''s adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture...