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Appendix A: Questionnaire Questions* T his is a preliminary survey for the research project on Asian popular culture. Your response will be used to develop a research plan. P lease list 5 Korean actors/actresses who are popular now. 1 2 3 4 5 P lease list 5 K-pop musicians/groups who are popular now. 1 2 3 4 5 Please list Korean actors/actresses who you know or you think are popular in Japan. List as many as you want. Please list K-pop musicians/groups who you know or you think are popular in Japan. List as many as you want. 224 APPENDIX A W hat do you think about the popularity of Korean TV dramas, K-pop, and Korean food in Japan? Please circle the appropriate answer. *It is good that the Japanese like Korean culture Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree *Generally speaking, actors, actresses, and musicians who are popular in Korea also become popular in Japan. Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree *The Japanese are only influenced by the Korean Wave (hallyu). They are not interested in Korean culture. Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree *How popular are Japanese movies, dramas, popular music, and food in Korea? Very Popular Popular Not Popular *Should the Koreans and the Japanese work together to produce TV dramas, movies, and popular music? Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree *Do you think Korean culture and Japanese culture are similar? If so, in what way? Yes N o N o Answer D on’t Know APPENDIX A 225 *Do you know any other countries where Korean TV dramas and K-pop are popular? Please list the countries. Thank you very much for your participation! N ote * Questions were translated into Japanese and Korean when the survey was administered. Appendix B C o m p a r i s o n between Japanese respondents and Korean respondents W hat do you think about the popularity of Korean TV dramas, K-pop, and Korean food in Japan? Please circle the appropriate answer. *It is good that the Japanese like Korean culture. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Japanese175524003 Korean 31 58 12 000 *Generally speaking, actors, actresses, and musicians who are popular in Korea also become popular in Japan. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Japanese 10 50 26 10 0 3 Korean 15 44 25 15 0 0 *The Japanese are only influenced by the Korean Wave (hallyu). They are not interested in Korean culture. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Japanese 3 48 40 9 0 0 Korean 8 40 23 29 0 0 228 APPENDIX B *How popular are Japanese movies, dramas, popular music, and food in Korea? Very Popular Popular Not Popular Japanese 19 69 12 Korean 6 75 19 *Should the Koreans and the Japanese work together to produce TV dramas, movies, and popular music? Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Japanese 5 29 55 7 0 2 Korean 0 38 46 15 0 0 *Do you think Korean culture and Japanese culture are similar? If so, in what way? Yes No No Answer Don’t Know Japanese 33 17 48 2 Korean 39 45 16 0 Comparison between those who are knowledgeable of Hanryu and those who are not among the Japanese W hat do you think about the popularity of Korean TV dramas, K-pop, and Korean food in Japan? Please circle the appropriate answer. *It is good that the Japanese like Korean culture. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Response 23 60 17 0 0 0 No Response 11 50 32 0 0 7 APPENDIX B 229 *Generally speaking, actors, actresses, and musicians who are popular in Korea also become popular in Japan. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Response 17 47 27 10 0 0 No Response 4 54 25 11 0 7 *The Japanese are only influenced by the Korean Wave (hallyu). They are not interested in Korean culture. Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Response 0 53 40 7 0 0 No Response 7 43 39 11 0 0 *How popular are Japanese movies, dramas, popular music, and food in Korea? Very Popular Popular Not Popular Response 20 67 13 No Response 19 71 11 *Should the Koreans and the Japanese work together to produce TV dramas, movies, and popular music? Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly No Answer Agree Disagree Response 7 30 50 10 3 0 N o R e s ponse 4 29 61 4 0 4 *Do you think Korean culture and Japanese culture are similar? If so, in what way? Yes No No AnswerDon’t Know Response 33 20 47 0 No Response 32 14 50 4 Contributors Crystal S. Anderson i s a s s o c i a t e p r o fessor of English at Elon University. She conducts research in comparative ethnic studies (African American, Asian, Asian American) focusing on literature, visual culture, and pop- ular culture. In addition to her book, Beyond the Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production , she has published work in several journals, including African American Revieww, MELUS , Ethnic Studies Revieww , and Extrapolation . Currently, she conducts qualitative and cultural studies research on global fans of Korean popular music (K-pop) and is working on a book project on the impact of rhythm and blues on K-pop. Young Eun Chae i s a K o r e a F o u n dation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation examines representations of historical trau- mas during the decade of liberal regimes in recent South Korean films. Chae is currently working on a manuscript investigating violence and humor in various genre films in contemporary Korean cinema. Hyejung Ju i s a s s i s t a n t p r o fessor in the Department of Mass Communications at Claflin University, South Carolina. Her research interests include studying popular culture in conjunction with globaliza- tion, Asian media, migration and transnational consumption, and inter- national media industries, audiences and technologies. She has published articles in Communication, Culture & Critique , Asian Women , and also several book chapters. Jennifer Jung-Kim teaches Korean history and East Asian studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation was titled Women and Modernity in Colonial Korea (UCLA, 2005) and her ongoing research is on Korean women’s history and roles in modern and contemporary Korea. Yasue Kuwahara is professor of Communication and director of Popular Culture Studies at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches a 232 CONTRIBUTORS variety of courses on American and Asian popular culture. Her ongoing research focuses on the US influence on postwar Japan. She has authored book chapters and published articles in various journals, including the Journal of Popular Culture. Claire Seungeun Lee is a PhD candidate at the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her broader research interests include cultural sociology, economic soci- ology, media, globalization, and Asia from a comparative angle. Chuyun Oh i s a PhD student in Performance as Public Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. She has received Fulbright Graduate Study Award for the program. She earned her master’s degree in dance aesthet- ics and bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Dance from Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea. Her research focuses on race, gender, and class representations in the twenty-first-century Korean pop culture. Her dis- sertation investigates the ways in which the dancing body in K-pop is racialized and gendered, embodying sociopolitical notions of hybridity and cultural authenticity. Myoung-Sun Songg is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her research looks at the intersections of race, gender, and citizenship in Korean media and popular culture. Sherri L. Ter Molen i s a doctoral candidate and 2013–2014 Thomas C. Rumble Fellow in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she studies the complicated medi- ated relationships between the divided Koreas and the United States. She is also an adjunct instructor at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She is a nearly lifelong Koreanophile who bought her first K-pop CDs in 1995 while she was teaching English in Daejeon, South Korea. She is the organizer of the Metro Detroit Korean Meetup Group. John Walsh i s director of the SIU Research Centre, editor of the SIU Journal of Managementt, and assistant professor at the School of Management, Shinawatra University, Thailand. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford for a thesis related to international man- agement in East Asia. He has lived and worked in Sudan, Greece, Korea, Australia, and Abu Dhabi, in addition to his native United Kingdom. His research mainly focuses on the social and economic development of the Mekong Regi o n . Index A Moment to Rememberr (2004), 156 Asian adaptation, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 94–7 body, 54, 66–7 Africa, 191 cultures, 118, 197 African American countries, 5–7, 40–1, 44, 90, 153, culture, 118, 121–2, 128 197, 199, 201, 206 expressive culture, 123–4 fan, 37, 39, 192 male performance, 122–3 masculinity, 5, 58, 127 marching bands, 122 media, 33, 47, 205 musical traditions, 121 men, 118, 127–8 soul music, 121 popular culture, 46, 223 see also under black sexuality, 68 African Americans, 5–6, 58 television, 36–7 Africans, 66 women, 64, 68 Ai Weiwei, 109 Asian Americans, 55 America, 6, 89, 90, 106, 135–7, 141, 144.