Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2022)

Research on Korean Idol-Making Industry Based on Culture Industry Theory

Authors
Zhaoqi Wang1, *
1University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: ZXW045@student.bham.ac.uk
Corresponding Author
Zhaoqi Wang
Available Online 29 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_395How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Idol-making industry; Culture industry; Korean
Abstract

The Korean pop mature system is well known around the world, and its industrially produced idol groups such as BTS and Blackpink have not only taken Asia by storm, but have even swept Europe and the US, with their works topping iTunes, YouTube and other charts and even breaking records. However, in recent years, Korean idol culture has been severely criticized for its negative news, such as fans collecting money to make charts, social media wars, and data falsification by program groups to make money. At present, studies on Korean idol industry are limited to gender perspective and international cultural exchange perspective, but rarely examine its mature mechanism, industrialized operation and mass production from a critical perspective. This paper attempts to analyze Korean pop culture from the perspective of cultural industry and finds that Korean pop not only presents various characteristics of cultural industry theory, but also has a negative impact on Korean society. This paper will be beneficial to supplement the lack of cultural criticism on the research of idol-making industry.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_395
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-31-2_395How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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