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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
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By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing,
shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. Oh demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop culture–mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.