What we talk about when we talk about k-dramas

Join in on the meta discussion about the way international fans discuss Korean culture. How does this community collectively negotiate authenticity of k-products and why? Support K-drama Research Institute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kdramaresearchinstitute K-drama footage used in this video, in order of first appearance: My Dearest, Squid Game 2, Chicken Nugget, The 8 Show, Potato Lab, Newtopia, Friendly Rivalry, Frankly Speaking, A Killer Paradox, Psychokinesis, From now on Showtime!, Race Sources: Abd-Rahim, Atiqah. “Online Fandom: Social Identity and Social Hierarchy of Hallyu Fans.” Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography Volume 9 Issue 1, (2019): 65-81. Elfving-Hwang, Joanna. “South Korean Cultural Diplomacy and Brokering ‘K-Culture’ outside Asia”. Korean Histories. 4. (2013). 14-24. Fedorenko, Olga. "The Insiders and Outsiders of Korean Culture." Acta Koreana 21, no. 2 (2018): vii-xvi. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756436. Kim, Kyung Hyun. “Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century.” Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Kim, Youna. “Soft Power and Cultural Nationalism: Globalization of the Korean Wave” In Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile, edited by Y. Kim, (London, UK: Routledge, 2022). Lee, Hye-Kyung. “Cultural policy and Korean Wave: From national culture to transnational consumerism”. in Y Kim (ed.), The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global. Internationalizing media studies, Routledge, London ; New York, (2013). p. 185-198. Lee, Min Joo, Lily Chu, Inhye Irene Han, and Ji Sun Jeon. "Chapter 16: K-Pop and Koreaboo: a feminist analysis of the racial and sexual politics of the transnational media fandom". In Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889132.00026 Lie, John. “What Is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity.” Korea Observer 43 (2012): 339-363. Lyan, Irina. "7. “I Was Probably Korean in a Previous Life”: Transracial Jokes and Fantasies of Hallyu Fans" In Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia: Race and Reception edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin Min Han, 171-193. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295752976-010 Lyan, Irina. “Welcome to Korea Day: From Diasporic to Hallyu “Fan-Nationalism”.” International Journal of Communication 13 (2019): 3764-3780. Rosenau, Sara. 2022. “Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation”. Colorado Research in Linguistics 26 (August). https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/1577. Schulze, Marion. “Korea vs. K-Dramaland: The Culturalization of K-Dramas by International Fans.” Acta Koreana 16, no. 2 (December 2013): 367–97. https://doi.org/10.18399/acta.2013.16.2.004. Tinaliga, Brittany, "“At War for OPPA and Identity”: Competitive Performativity among Korean-Pop Fandoms" (2018). Master's Projects and Capstones. 768. https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/768 Yoon, Kyong. “Between Universes: Fan Positionalities in the Transnational Circulation of K-Pop.” Communication and the Public 7, no. 4 (2022): 188–201. doi:10.1177/20570473221136667. Yoon, Kyong. “Translational Audiences in the Age of Transnational K-Pop.” International Journal of Communication (2023). 112-129. Instagram reels used in this video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBd-PVrIsjg/ https://www.instagram.com/korean_beautypoint/reel/DGLM27ZTLd5/ https://www.instagram.com/p/C5KojOVLMjt/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DGk6i_vSm5N/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 Is your favorite Korean thing "authentically" Korean? 03:09 Who is "we"? 06:11 Explaining Korea to each other 09:01 The experts 11:10 The Koreaboo problem 15:13 The government is behind all of this!