ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
Nos 1• 2015
New Series
C O N T E N T S
YOUNGMI KIM, VALENTINA MARINESCU, Mapping South Korea’s Soft Power: Sources, Actors, Tools, and Impact
KEITH HOWARD, Politics, Parodies, and the Paradox of Psy’s ‘Gangnam style’
BIANCA MITU, Confucianism and the Contemporary Korean society
ANGELICA HELENA MARINESCU, The concept of open-air museum: From mediation of national identity to entertainment
CORNELIA-ALEXANDRA LINCAN, ELENA-ADINA VOICILĂ, Revisiting Global Korea. South Korea’s soft power assets and the role of development cooperation
VERONICA DUMITRASCU, South Korea: A Major Regional Power
ETIENNE GIROUARD, Nations, Nationhood and National Culture: Theorizing a genealogy of Korean Nations to understand the logics of soft power on a divided peninsula
BOOK REVIEWS
MARGARETA RYMARENKO, Valentina Marinescu (ed.): The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture: Hallyu Unbound (2014) Lexington Books
SILVAN KRISTINA, Daniel Tudor. Rutland, Vt.: Korea: The Impossible Country (2012) Tuttle Publishing
CATALINA STANCIU, Overlooked Historical Records of the Three Korean Kingdoms (2006) Seoul: Jimoondang
ALFREDO HERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, Yung Chul Park and Hugh Patrick (eds): How finance is shaping the economies of China, Japan, and Korea (2013) Columbia University Press, New York