South Korean Pop Music Through the Lens of the Foreign Public : Is K-pop a Type of Soft Power?
(2021) COSM40 20211Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
- Abstract
- K-pop is one of South Korea’s most famous cultural phenomena, and this thesis will delve into its impact outside of Korea‘s borders. The paper briefly discusses the background of the Korean Wave, and then dives right into the cultural form of K-pop and its connection with cultural diplomacy and soft power. The main focus of the thesis is to discuss the foreign perceptions of K-pop and that is done by analyzing the qualitative open-ended survey that I created which received 345 responses in total. The survey received a mix of responses but the majority still answered that they had good impressions, and a great connection between soft power and K-pop could be seen.
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- author
- El Sayed, Camilia
- supervisor
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- Erik Mobrand LU
- organization
- course
- COSM40 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- South Korea, K-pop, foreign perceptions, soft power, cultural diplomacy
- language
- English
- id
- 9067172
- date added to LUP
- 2021-10-21 11:23:50
- date last changed
- 2021-10-21 11:23:50
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