This open access book examines the lived experiences of diasporic Korean youth in light of the transnational flows of South Korean popular culture, known as the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Korean Canadian youth and their engagement with the Korean Wave, the book proposes a critical understanding of the interactions between diasporic youth audiences and popular cu…
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as re-fected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical anal-ysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a necessary vantage point for understanding—in our era—the emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and compelling in-troduction to this s…