Tourist Distractions av Youngmin Choe

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<DIV>In <I>Tourist Distractions</I> Youngmin Choe uses <I>hallyu</I> (Korean-wave) cinema as a lens to examine the relationships among tourism and travel, economics, politics, and history in contemporary East Asia. Focusing on films born of transnational collaboration and its networks, Choe shows how the integration of the tourist imaginary into hallyu cinema points to the region''s evolving transnational politics and the ways Korea negotiates its colonial and Cold War past with East Asia''s neoliberal present. Hallyu cinema''s popularity has inspired scores of international tourists to visit hallyu movie sets, filming sites, and theme parks. This tourism helps ease regional political differences; reimagine South Korea''s relationships with North Korea, China, and Japan; and blur the lines between history, memory, affect, and consumerism. It also provides distractions from state-sponsored narratives and forges new emotional and economic bonds that foster community and cooperation throu