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China’s Ban on Hallyu and Challenges of Cultural Contents Industry

JO, JEONG-RAE 1

1한림대학교

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ABSTRACT

The centre of the gravity of the world’s politics and economics is gradually shifting towards Asia form Europe and North America in the 21st century. Especially in China and Northeast Asian countries are pursuing cultural development based on their economic power and are aiming for globalization. China is heading towards the ‘China Dream’ and ‘The Powerful Culture’, and Japan is steadily maintaining its ‘move towards right-wing policy’ based on a country’s economic growth. It is obvious that Korea’s cultural strategy and policy setting is a very important period in the realization of the hegemonic dominance of the world culture. Since the 2000s, the Chinese government’s cultural policy has emphasized the revival of traditional culture based on the expansion of Cultural Power of Imperial. In particular, in 2011, the Chinese government adopted to ‘build up the socialist cultural powerhouse’ as a new national vision. To achieve this, the Chinese government has set up the cultural industry as a national strategic industry, and has strongly promoted the national image and strengthened soft power. In this context, China has carried out economic retaliation against South Korea over THAAD, which also hurts China’s economy. As a result, structural weaknesses of Korean economy and industry on China trade are emerging as an urgent task. Among these changes, how will we, who experienced colonial cultural imperialism, recognize and accept various cultural conflicts beyond the political and economic problems with China? As a method to find its solutions, this study looked at the interrelated aspects of ‘China’s ban on Hallyu’ and ‘cultural contents industry’.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.