Korea: Modernity and Culture

Edited by Haerin Shin

Introduction
Haerin Shin

The DMZ Responds
Seo-Young Chu

“Like a Miracle”: On Figurative Language, Combat Magics, and Korean War Necropoetics
Stephen Hong Sohn

Art of Resistance: Nostalgia in North Korea’s Literary Production
Immanuel Kim

Sorrowful Feeling: Han and Its Haunting Legacies
Meera Lee

The Korean Wave and the Impasse of Theory
Peter Yoonsuk Paik

You Can’t Write “Pak” on Television: Language as Power in Hebrew K-pop Fandom
Dafna Zur

Running Man: The Korean Television Variety Program on the Transnational, Affective Run
Kyung Hyun Kim with Tian Li

K-pop Female Idols as Cultural Genre of Patriarchal Neoliberalism: A Gendered Nature of Developmentalism and the Structure of Feeling/Experience in Contemporary Korea
Gooyong Kim

The Flesh of Democracy: Plastic Surgery and Human Capital in South Korea
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

The Sublime Objects of Affectivity: Shoes, Vampires, and Colors in Park Chan-wook’s Thirst
Hyun Seon Park

Reviews

Russia’s Long Anti-Revolution of Constitutionalism
Richard Sakwa