Suchergebnisse

1. We All Made Us: Historicizing Hanguk Hip Hop -- 2. Made in Korea: Authenticity in Hanguk Hip Hop -- 3. From Hongdae to Sinchon: Space and Place in Korean Hip Hop -- 4. 2 Chainz & Rollies: Hip Hop as Self-Development Text in Neoliberal South Korea -- 5. Idol Rapper: K-Pop and the Production of Authenticity -- 6. Unpretty Rapstar: Gender and Representation in Korean Hip Hop -- 7. We All Made History: Globalizing Hanguk Hip Hop

For the last decade, South Korea – a nation that has called itself danil minjok, a phrase that means ethnically homogenous and racially distinctive – has been transitioning from a homogenous country to a multicultural one. This article focuses on the depiction of 'the ethnic female other' in Korean media, more specifically on that of marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. It analyses two Korean media texts, the film Punch (Lee, 2011) and the television programme Love in Asia (2005–15), specifically around scenes depicting food: marriage migrants preparing food, cooking food, eating food, sharing food, etc. How does food function as sociocultural practices in the exploration of migration and the formation of identities for female marriage migrants? This article argues that Korean film and television articulates a rather limited multicultural discourse as part of its national identity, most notably in the depiction of marriage migrants as mothers who are required to actively produce and consume Korean food. In doing so, the article demonstrates that while media depictions of marriage migrants provide a window onto the transitional process of questioning what a 'Korean' family is, it currently remains very limited and ambivalent.