2022, Vol.1, No.1

International Journal of K-Culture/K-Culture융합연구 KCI Impact Factor : 0.0

pISSN : 2951-2808 / eISSN : 2951-2883
https://journal.kci.go.kr/K-Culture

Objectives: Metaverse’s worldview must be complete as a detail, and expandable in direction. And it serves as a standard for roadmap, set-up, and copyright, and becomes a key element of Metaverse immersion. However, there are no cases of this, and companies that develop Metaverse often recognize Metaverse as a functional 3D website, and most of all, there is no clear guide to the Worldview as it is led by engineers. This article deals with these problems. Methods: Metaverse’s worldview should take into account economic, humanities-social, and technical aspects. Currently, the importance is evaluated in the order of technology, economy, and humanities-social aspects. Attractive metaverse should lead to user participation and act as a guide. To this end, the worldview is more important than anything else. The establishment of a worldview presents the possibility of growing into a global platform. This article deals with this content. Conclusions: The most important factor to consider when designing the metaverse worldview is the economic process based on the compensation economy. In addition, humanities and sociological backgrounds are needed to naturally form social relationships to support such economic relations. And finally, we need to design it in consideration of the technical factors.

Objectives: Park Kyung-ri’s novel “Land” is a literary work that can be analyzed from the perspective of a mobility paradigm. This work shows mobility factors due to the complex relationship between various places, situations, and characters through the movement of places in modern and contemporary Korean history. The purpose of this article is to analyze this work from this new perspective. Methods: This study attempted to analyze Park Kyung-ri’s novel land from the perspective of John Erie’s mobility paradigm. This article attempted to interpret literary works in various ways through the ‘mobility paradigm’. Conclusions: Park Kyung-ri’s novel “Land” was analyzed based on John Erie’s mobility perspective and methodology. First, the main character, Choi Seo-hee, examined the movement and process according to the ‘historic event’ by applying it to the mobility element. Next, centering on the main character, Choi Seo-hee, the shape of the characters, the change of consciousness, the complex relationship between the characters, and the intersection of emotions were analyzed in connection with mobility factors. Finally, the issue of the view of life was also examined by linking Park Kyung-ri’s novel “Land” with John Erie’s mobility perspective, influence, and Yi-Fu-Tuan’s topophilia perspective.

Objectives: Korean pop music(K-pop) is a world renowned genre of music. Originating from Seoul, South Korea, K-pop songs are primarily sung in Korean. K-pop has continued to break through international barriers. K-pop started to gain international attention through the Korean wave(Hallyu) and has continued to gain momentum through the different waves. Methods: This paper examined how K-pop became popular through social media during the second Korean wave. In particular, it focused on how Korean entertainment companies took advantage of social media to promote their idols. Additionally, this study examined how fans communicate with their idols through social media, and how this affected the formation of the idol fandoms. Conclusions: Social media was the catalyst for creating fans support towards K-pop groups. Korean entertainment companies usage of social media to promote their K-pop groups has paid off. Without social media, fandoms would not have been able to be large and impactful. YouTube was one of the first social media platforms that entertainment companies used, but now fans have a variety of platforms to interact with. It was easy to create large fan bases because of social media, and fans contributed to the output of content by creating their own. In the future, K-pop through social media will continue to gain popularity and fans give them support.