Elizabeth Lee

This paper seeks to explore how the industry and fans of Korean pop music challenge and subvert existing copyright and traditional global music industry structures. First, a sociopolitical history of Korea’s popular media contextualizes its current global positioning. The kpop industry utilized and benefited from the new media technologies that allowed them to bypass restrictive licensing issues in different countries. Also, a strong social-media based transnational fan culture consumes, creates, and distributes fan content in transformative and powerful ways.

This paper explores on the neoliberalization of the South Korea’s popular cultural industry, which includes mass media like film, television dramas, and popular music. South Korea has aggressively developed this industry through a variety of neoliberal policies to compete successfully within globalization (eg the Hallyu Wave).

This paper argues that Smosh's parody 2005 Pokemon theme song was indeed fair use. This case brings into question the nature and potential purposes of a YouTube video, as well as the legality of elements (such as music) that comprise such videos.  Ultimately my analysis points to the need for fair use to be redefined for this Internet era, adapting to user-generated and user-based online consumption and unprecedented forms of creative media.

This exploration of Songdo centers around the framework of sustainability’s connection to globalization, modernity, and image. This paper is structured to explore Songdo as whole built environment, specific architecture in the city, and Songdo in a global context. The first section of this paper will examine Songdo’s urban design as a whole, acknowledging that a planned sustainable city is a unique and unprecedented built environment. Through analysis of the space and Songdo’s marketing, this section will expose the implications that come with Songdo’s sustainable design. The next section will analyze specific architecture in Songdo to explore the relationship between Songdo’s Korean identity and its desired international image. Finally, the paper will reflect on the effect of sustainability and globalization on new planned cities

This paper focuses specifically on two organizations, Asian Americans United and Asian Arts Initiative to contrast ways that organizations use and adapt their organization’s Asian American identity for mobilization, activism, and place-making in Chinatown North/Callowhill
and more broadly in Philadelphia. AAI and AAU’s identity, purpose, goals, and neighborhood vision inform how they interact with the space around them. In the process of place-making in/on the edge of Chinatown, these organizations inevitably influence both neighborhoods. The threat of gentrification is still real and increasing but also fundamentally happening independently from
the actions of both organizations. I first explore the historical roots of the complexities and racialization of such a broad Asian American population, and connect the topic of Asian American organizations their place in the larger narrative of Chinatown and Chinatown North/Callowhill. I then analyze the organizations’ programming and interviews with the executive directors and place them in the context of their impact and presence within the space.