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  • Whose Comfort?: Body, Sexuality And Identity Of Korean 'Comfort Women' And Japanese Soldiers During Wwii

    by Yonson Ahn ...
    In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means of furthering military or political goals. The ongoing issue of comfort women has been debated not only among Asian countries including Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines but also in numerous international forums.This book examines the ... Read more

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  • Cross-border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea offers a rich, interdisciplinary examination of the evolving relationships between Korea and Germany, illuminating a dynamic yet often overlooked field of study.Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the volume traces how migration, cultural exchange, and intellectual transfer have produced layered and shifting forms ... Read more

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  • Transnational Mobility and Identity in and out of Korea

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This volume examines the socio-cultural aspects of transnational mobility of the Korean diaspora across the globe, spanning countries such as Japan, the Philippines, Germany, the US, and the UK. The contributors explore gendered migration, social inclusion and exclusion in homeland and hostland, embodied multiple subjectivities and belonging in historical and contemporary contexts, migrants’ work ... Read more

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  • Diversity on the Korean Screen

    Edited by Yonson Ahn, Dal Yong Jin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
    This volume examines the representation of marginalized groups on the Korean screen to offer an academic exploration of the growing themes of diversity and intersectionality in audiovisual formats of South Korea’s media industry.Exploring the representation of aging women, queer individuals, adoptees, and individuals with neurodivergence, the book presents comprehensive narratives of these ... Read more

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  • Korea and the Global Society

    Edited by Yonson Ahn ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Korea
    This book explores multiple fields and disciplines around the theme of South Korea’s engagement and exchanges with global society focusing on development cooperation, migration and the media.The core of this volume is an analysis of South Korea’s engagement and reciprocity in global society that has developed out of the country’s shift from aid recipient and migrant sender to aid provider and ... Read more

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  • Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China

    Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as a role model for less-developed mainland cities and explores changing perceptions as China grows in ... Read more

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    Changing From Fish to Dragon

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  • Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

    South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

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