ARCHIVE: The Rise of South Korean Culture: From the US Military, To Squid Game & K-Pop

FIRST AIRED: 17/01/2022. On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim, author of ‘Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century’. He discusses the rise of South Korean culture which has become a global phenomenon, South Korean culture mimicking US culture through the experience of the American troop presence and evolving into a culture of its own, the significance of the worldwide appeal of South Korean-produced music and film such as Squid Game during a crisis in capitalism and much more

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