The Korean Wave in Iran Motives and Consequences of The Spread of Korean Popular Culture in Iran

Zokaei, Mohammad Saeed; Azizi Hamedani, Matin

doi:10.22054/cs.2015.4594

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Allameh Tabataba’i University.

² Masters, Allameh Tabataba’i University.

https://doi.org/10.22054/cs.2015.4594

Abstract

The rapid development of ICTs in the early 21^st century has brought about dramatic changes in the youths’ personal and social identifications. Spending long hours in virtual spaces consuming popular culture news and products (in this case Korean pop music), while providing the youth with a huge amount of information and entertainment, also provides them with unique experiences through which they can express themselves.
Drawing on a cyber-ethnography of the fans of Korean popular culture in Iran, this paper aims to show the impacts this virtual fandom poses to young adolescents and to show how the cultural products consumed in this environment help create a global-local identity. The results suggest that this fandom culture has differentiating, complementary and compensatory functions and in a complex way helps strengthen cosmopolitan identities among the Iranian youths.

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