The Reason Of Importing Large Numbers Of Reality Tv Shows From Korea

This will lead to the mass media homogeneity that will dissolve cultural differences. Cultural imperialism started right after decolonization when political or military control of another country could not be practiced. Psychological forms of control began to be used and were facilitated through the rapid integration of global telecommunications systems. They pushed American culture that promoted the ideas of consumption and instant gratification that would spread global capitalism and increase profits. The cultural imperialism argument has several strengths as well as weaknesses. It’s main strength is based on the idea that mass media from larger nations negatively affects the smaller nations because the national identity of smaller nations is lessened or lost due to media homogeneity inherent in mass media from the larger countries. Sometimes local interpreters keep some cultural diversification by transforming the imported media to meet local demand. The media is still influenced by the core but is also still unique and successful. Examples of this include the success of Korean pop music and Bollywood cinema in their respective “geolinguistic region.” The media imperialism theory fails to fully understand the internal historical and social dynamics within periphery countries. The West may have implanted the model of television consumerism, but the West is not required to sustain it and today many US programs lead the world in their transportability across cultural boundaries but are rarely the most popular when viewers have reasonable local options. (L&B p340-342)(Peripheral Vision) The social construction of reality theory attempts to explain how and why individuals view the world in a certain way and what role the media plays in shaping that view. It suggests that the media actually

Amidst volatile and rapidly evolving preferences and uses for different forms of new media, North Korea remains entrenched in the situation where all types of media are state-owned; where the Internet is

The first reason, people love to watch many Korean artist members who involve in this game show because all of them are really handsome and pretty for the women.

The usage of entertainment media takes place on a daily basis in our homes in one way or another. And the various media exposure becomes the reality of the American culture due to the idolization of such viewing experiences. The ways that various forms of entertainment media shaped American culture and its values will be discussed throughout this paper. As well as if the social influences of entertainment media is mostly positive or negative.

I’ve had an interest in South Korean culture since I was in middle school. Ranging from the royal families of the Goryeo era to the current rising pop culture, however there is one aspect of Korean culture I am not too fond of, only because I can relate to it.

Attitudes, beliefs and ethic codes are visible parts of the national culture. Through an examination of the Big Brother Reality Game show and media reaction to events within the show one can gain an understanding of the national culture where the show was broadcast. Television game shows are not new to the air waves the broadcast of truth or consequences in 1941, the television game show has evolved into today’s reality television game show.

South Korea has had an incredible journey in the past sixty years. It had been burned to the ground in a vicious civil war, and is now a top fifteen world economy and is rapidly becoming world's plastic surgery leader. It is known that American culture has come to dominate South Korea's culture in more ways than one. But the area in which it made great inroads is Korean ageism. Since America has gained cultural dominance over South Korea following America’s introduction of cosmetic surgery, they have become fixated on beauty enhancements, thus causing age discrimination to be rife. This group culture of ideal normalcy symbolizes America’s cultural dominance over South Korea.

With the opening up of China in the 1980s, the country soon became one of the biggest buyers in the global television programming market. Massive importation soon led to imitation, as can be seen in the importation and imitation of telenovelas. In this case, it was specifically the impact of the global product being consumed in a local market that

Reality TV shows are a type of program that film real/ordinary people, with a notion of entertainment than information. These programs attempt to show how an ordinary person behaves or react in their daily life or in certain situation. Shows that promise more drama, suspense, romance, laughter, etc. that one could relate to real experiences, is what audience enjoy. Reality TV shows are a genre in which real people are shadowed closely by cameras. Television shows have the power to shape one perspective towards various aspects of life and it the society that relegates individuals to be competitive and exploitative of individuals and situations to make sure their survival. The various ideologies presented through reality TV shows are quiet successful as the word ‘reality’ itself suggests that its based on real people and what the viewers see is a real life representation of people and their actions. The show - ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is a successfully running American reality television show till date with 22 seasons (‘Cycles’) and an upcoming season in December 2016. This reality TV show is more like an interactive competition among the contestants/models to fetch the title of ‘America’s Next Top Model’ and mostly importantly a career in the modeling industry. The show was premiered on May 20, 2003 and originally aired on UPN, which was later taken over by VH1. This show presents models that are real people and not actors/celebs; they are constantly shown competing

Nowadays, reality TV programmes appear on the television screen with varied types and mixed styles. It is difficult to find out a unified standard for classification of reality TV programmes’ types. In western countries, the most frequently mentioned types of reality TV programme by different scholars are infotainment, docu-soap, lifestyle, reality gameshows, talent competitions, relationship reality TV shows, etc.

Music has become a daily consumption of modern society; Either the high or the bottom class, everybody loves music. Among all music genre, pop music dominates the playlists of music lovers. The Instruments that are widely used in pop music is familiar, so that the melody, rhythm, and the beat producedcan be easily accepted by the public. Coupled with simple yet “eye-catching” lyric, also easily to memorize, give another value to the pop music genre. However, there is one kind of pop music which is now caught world’s attention, that is K-Pop or Korean Pop. Korean Pop is a part of the Korean Wave. Accordimg toSue Jin Lee (2011), she said that, “Korean Wave refers to the significantly increased popularity of South Korean culture around the world”, all the culture, inclluding dramas and films production, language, and literature, and also music industry; and K-Pop focuses on the music industry in Korea. K-Pop is a genre of music specifically comes from South Korea which combines music with dance performance. The synchronization between dance movements and the beat of music become a highlight performance of

Straubhaar (1991) comments on how Brazil in trying to ‘’extricate itself from self-dependency from media hegemony’’ (p.36) The case of South Korea is shown by (Jin, 2007) who admits that there are ‘’impediments as the West still regulates the Korean market through capital and cultural control, Korea now produces and sends local television programmes in the export market in that region’’ (p.89).

Those good-looking pop singer, actor and actress represent the Korean type beauty which is attractive and scintillating. Through both television and internet, young people and women in particular have passion in pursuing their dreaming celebrities and even imitating their way of dressing. Although Korean drama does not have spectacular scene like what Hollywood prefers to have, oppositely the exquisite scene in film and the beautiful actors in drama give people a difference feeling. The Korean public broadcaster KBS has aired its satellite channel “KBS world” in China for both Korean and foreigners in 2007. KBS hopes their new service can boost Korean wave in China with a population of 1.3 billion. Moreover, media production is promoted by national policy. Korean government continuously support and promote Korean wave to the whole world by improving their production techniques. The range of implementation of Korean wave expands rapidly as the exposure rate of the word Hallyu increases. Chinese people start to chase the new phenomenon due to the promoting of media.

Back in the early 1960s, South Korea’s (GDP) Gross Domestic Product per capita was just over 100 dollars. The small densely populated country was just recovering from the costly Korean War. Now, 60 years later, South Korea’s GDP per capita is an astounding 25,000 plus dollars. South Korea, a country with just over 50 million people, now holds the 13th largest economy in the world and has grown to become a center for technology development. The Korean people are extremely proud of the long stranding traditions of their culture as well as the economic success they have achieved in the modern world. Korean business culture is entirely unique from what many Western countries are accustomed to and many Koreans attribute South Koreas modern success to the country’s long-standing cultural values.

TV programs broadcasted in Malaysia are mainly imported from the USA and other Western countries, and the values are different from the values in Malaysian communities. The government argued that the media had negative influences on the education, attitude, and morality amongst Malaysian youth. With TV programs such as Baywatch, Friends, and several reality shows being popular amongst the youth, a lack of Malaysian values are being expressed. Malaysian TV stations even adopted some of the concepts, creating remakes of some of these programs with Malaysian actors and civilians, such as Malaysian Idol based off of American Idol. (Halim, 2004)