Korean Popular Culture and Korean Wave

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

1. Introduction to Korean cultural identity and its global relationships. 2. Korean diaspora music in China, Japan, US, Europe, South America and CIS. 3. The popularity of Korean pop culture and its export to international markets as a national product. Further discourse of the positive and negative effects of the Hallyu phenomena. 4. Discussing the important theoretical concepts and issues from an ethnomusicological perspective of Korean traditional and popular music.