In search of the Korean digital wave [Paper in themed section: Riding the Korean Digital Wave. Yecies, Brian; Lee, Kwang-Suk and Goldsmith, Ben (eds)]

This article sets the context for this special themed issue on the ‘Korean digital wave’ by considering the symbiotic relationship between digital technologies, their techniques and practices, their uses and the affordances they provide, and Korea's ‘compressed modernity’ and swift industrialis...

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Published in:Media international Australia incorporating Culture & policy 2011-11, Vol.141 (141), p.70-77
Main Authors: Goldsmith, Ben, Lee, Kwang-Suk, Yecies, Brian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asia: Culture
Australia
Cultural industry
Digital technology
Industrialization
Information economy
Innovation
International trade
Internet
Media
Media studies
Modernity
South Korea
Technology and civilization
User groups
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Summary:This article sets the context for this special themed issue on the ‘Korean digital wave’ by considering the symbiotic relationship between digital technologies, their techniques and practices, their uses and the affordances they provide, and Korea's ‘compressed modernity’ and swift industrialisation. It underscores the importance of interrogating a range of groundbreaking developments and innovations within Korea's digital mediascapes, and its creative and cultural industries, in order to gain a complex understanding of one of Australia's most significant export markets and trading partners. Given the financial and political commitment in Australia to a high-speed broadband network that aims to stimulate economic and cultural activity, recent technological developments in Korea, and the double-edged role played by government policy in shaping the ‘Korean digital wave’, merit close attention from media and communications scholars.
ISSN:1329-878X
2200-467X
DOI:10.1177/1329878X1114100109