Korean American Youth and Transnational Flows of Popular Culture across the Pacific

Rapid globalization has profoundly transformed our lives. Extensive and intensive flows of people, material resources and information across borders have intertwined the global and the local more closely than before. Such crossing of diverse cultures, peoples and information has weakened the rigidity and significance of existing borders, leading to the growing presence of 'border zones, where multiple cultures or political systems come face-to-face.