Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era

by Kyung Hyun Kim

" T]his fine book . . . . enlarges our vision of one of the great national cinematic flowerings of the last decade."--Martin Scorsese, from the foreword

In the late 1990s, South Korean film and other cultural products, broadly known as hallyu (Korean wave), gained unprecedented international popularity. Korean films earned an all-time high of $60.3 million in Japan in 2005, and they outperformed their Hollywood competitors at Korean box offices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351013
• ISBN13: 9780822351016
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"