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Analyses mobile communication in the context of Korean smartphones. This book looks into a largely neglected focus of inquiry, a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Koreans' engagement with their devices and applications. Dal Yong Jin focuses on the achievement of technological advancement and the significance of social milieu in the development of the smartphones.

Portrays diverse aspects of contemporary Korean families and, by explicitly or implicitly situating contemporary families within a comparative historical perspective, reveals how the past of Korean families evolved into their current shapes.

This groundbreaking collection of thirty-five essays by a wide range of academic specialists situates current scholarship on Korean cinema within the ongoing theoretical debates in contemporary global film studies.

Since the 1990s Seoul has sought to recreate itself from a mega city to a global city, equipped with cutting-edge knowledge industries and infrastructures. By juxtaposing the cultural turn and cultural/creative city-making, this book interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul.