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Political Economy of Global Market: Debate on Cultural Imperialism Thesis and Its Critical Acceptance of Cultural Imperialism (문화시장 개방의 정치경제학: 문화제국주의 논쟁과 비판적 수용)

  • Yim, Dong-Uk
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.35
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    • pp.114-146
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    • 2006
  • Now, Korea-U.S.A Free Trade Agreement talk is underway in Korea. In FTA talks, the issues on audio-visual sector including screen quota, opening of broadcasting and telecommunication to the U.S.A. are becoming a hot potato. Globalization has been speed up by mass media and telecommunications. Cultures are no longer bounded by specific place but, through the migration of persons and the electronic flows of information, ideas and images, transgress established boundaries. So issues and debates have to be focused on global culture and cultural imperialism. Some would argue global culture is the consequences of capitalist world-system, so dominance by the center should be criticized and vanished. Some would say that global culture would help recipient society's people with cultural diversify and improvement. The issues on culture and communication, particularly at international level call for our attention in light of cultural identity, homogenization and diversity. Although I criticize the cultural imperialism thesis, I suggest critical acceptance of cultural imperialism. That is the observation of complexity between internal and external dynamics. The process of cultural imperialism is not simple and unitary. It rather involves the various forces of internal dynamics along with external forces.

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에드워드 사이드의 사상과 "문화와 제국주의"

  • Kim, Seong-Gon
    • The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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    • s.173
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    • pp.20-21
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    • 1995
  • 서구의 문헌 속에 감춰진 제국주의적 오만과 편견을 놀라울 만한 박식함으로 분석해낸 "오리엔탈리즘"의 저자 에드워드 사이드가 펴낸 "문화와 제국주의"는 그의 중심사상을 집약해 보인다는 점에서 중요한 의의를 갖는다. 그는 이 책에서 문화적 억압과 이념적 지배의 영역까지 파고들어간 제국주의 이데올로기의 헤게모니를 파악해야 한다고 말한다.

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Critical Analysis of Cultural Imperialism - From Simplistic Imperialism to Dynamic Cultural Fluid (문화제국주의의 비판적 고찰 - 단선적 문화제국주의에서 역동적인 국제적 문화 유동으로)

  • Yim, Dong-Uk
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.45
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    • pp.151-186
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    • 2009
  • This article focuses on analysing and interpreting cultural imperialism issues that have long been debated. One of issues among them is related to the characteristics of international cultural fluid. What had been debated is that cultural imperialism has been ended or not and the debates were connected to the so called 'reverse cultural imperialism'. The other issue is about this fluid is the continuation of globalization or a part of localization and this is related to the phenomena of cultural homogenization or hybrid. General trend was that simplistic cultural imperialism which had been occurred during the 1970s and 1980s was no longer effective but global dominance by transnational global media is still strong and worldwide. Therefore my research interest is centered on how they look international cultural exchanges with regard to cultural imperialism. And is the framework of cultural imperialism thesis still effective tool in researching and analysing international cultural flows? How do we look globalization relating to international exchanges? Is globalization an another aspect of imperialism? In conclusion, international cultural fluid is not so simple. Like natural phenomena or human progress, a phenomenon is not consisted of a single factor or relation. Cultural fluid is a complex one mixed with various phenomena and relations. This is related to internal and external contradictions, internal and external dynamics of a society and nation, and social and cultural life of human beings. Recent research results show that globalization and localization are closely related to many country's programming schedule, and particular cultural interpretation of specific programmes and culture are adopted to the country's culture and patterns. Cultural fluid has both-sides. One the hand it has useful and positive sides and on the other hand it has harmful and negative aspects. Imperialistic factor, globalization, cultural homogenization or hybrid are all operated and functioned together in cultual fluid. It is difficult to say that cultural imperialism thesis has been ended because American and global media's dominance is still effective. What needed at this time for us is a complex and dynamic analysis of international cultural fluid instead of simplistic cultural imperialism.

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MNC's Cultural Imperialism: Focusing on Wal-Mart in Korea (다국적기업의 문화제국주의: 한국진출 월마트를 중심으로)

  • Shin, Geon-Cheol;Kim, Daekwan;Park, Yonghee
    • International Area Studies Review
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.605-625
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    • 2011
  • Doing business in multiple countries, multinational corporations (MNCs) are warmly welcomed for additional choices of products and services available to local consumers. But in other markets, they are viewed negatively as a means of cultural imperialism even though MNCs do not change their strategies much. While the literature remains muted about such unpredictable consumer reactions, this study explores how consumers form their cultural imperialism perceptions on incoming MNCs using the consumer attitude theory.

A Study on the Korea-U.S. Negotiation Process for AFKN-TV Satellite Broadcasting in 1983

  • Sangkil Yoon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.39-47
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the progress of negotiations between the two countries regarding the implementation of AFKN's satellite broadcasting on October 4, 1983, as well as the opposition of domestic public opinion, which emerged as an important variable in the negotiation process. Through this, it was intended to lay the foundation for the historical facts necessary to interpret the negotiation process between the two countries over the implementation of AFKN's satellite broadcasting in the context of world history of cultural globalization. As a research method, the historical literature research method was used, focusing on archive documents stored in diplomatic archives. The study revealed that public opinion's movement toward cultural imperialism under domestic political conditions, which had authoritarian control over the media, served as an accidental factor to help carry out the regime's interests of regime protection. Through these findings, this paper interpreted that AFKN-TV's satellite broadcasting, which was implemented under the U.S. Department of Defense plan without the prior consent of the Korean government, clearly shows that Korea has been "semi-forced" into the U.S.-led cultural globalization order.

'지금 여기서' 탈식민주의 읽기

  • Kim, Seong-Gi
    • The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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    • s.243
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    • pp.20-21
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    • 1998
  • 탈식민주의의 주된 논지는 유럽 제국주의의 붕괴라는 공통의 경험적 자료에서 출발한다. 변방에 속한 것은 식민지 본국에 속한 것에 대해, 즉 주변은 중심에 대해 반감을 갖게 되므로 탈식민지 문화의 모는 경험은 전복을 지향하는 경향을 띤다.

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Ethan Frome: The 'Americanized' Narrative of the Invasion Theory (『이선 프롬』: 침범이론의 '미국적' 변형의 서사)

  • Kim, Meeyeon
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.52
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    • pp.313-339
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to explore the manner in which Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome conveys contemporary, (culturally) imperialistic ideology. Especially by focusing on the difference between the European germ (or invasion) theory and the 'Americanized' invasion theory, this paper elucidates how the American $20^{th}$ century fiction represents contemporary 'fear' of the immigration of non-whites, that generated anti-immigration public sentiment in early $20^{th}$ century America. Also, this study investigates how racial or gendered biases contribute to attributing all (societal or individual) evils or illnesses to minorities such as (non-Nordic or non-white) immigrants, including women. Wharton's Ethan Frome isn't short of reflecting cultural imperialism.

Culture, Empire, and Nation: A Critical Appropriation of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (문화, 제국, 민족 -비판적 전유를 위한 에드워드 사이드의 『문화와 제국주의』 읽기)

  • Koh, Boo Eung
    • Journal of English Language & Literature
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    • v.58 no.5
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    • pp.903-941
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    • 2012
  • This essay examines Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism focusing on the concepts of 'culture,' 'empire,' and 'nation'. The approach is critical, theoretical, and historical rather than explicatory. Consequently, the range of the essay is not limited to Said's own explanation and argument about Western imperialism and its culture presented in the book. In doing this, this essay finally purposes to be a discursive resistance to the current global empire, the United States, via a critical reading of Said's work. Said's notion of culture is set upon to disclose the function of culture as an apparatus of ideological consent of the dominated to the dominant. When applied to imperial practice, Western culture functions to subject the colonized to the colonizer. Said's geographical approach to imperialism complements the historical understanding of imperialism. Imperialism is not only the practice of Western-centered historicism but also the spatially mutual interaction between the West and the rest of the world. Along with European imperialism, Said poses the current global empire of the United States as his main target of criticism. Said's problem is that he takes the United States as a nation-state. When examined, the United States is not a nation-state, but today's empire. The empire in the appearance of the nation-state United States does not work for the interest of the American nation, that is, the American people. The empire is the transnational and postnational political and economic institution that works for the interest of global capital. In order to resist the current global empire, this essay suggests that the building or restoration of nation-states with its basic principle of people's sovereignty is in need.