Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Three World-Unique Issues in the First K-Nation: Hybrid Policies in a Homogeneous Culture Transcending a Colonial Past
1.2 Two Methods and Three Global Trends in the Book
1.3 Accelerated Digitalization and Globalization of the Korean Wave in Lockdown after 2020
1.4 Three Long Term Trends in the Korean Wave: Globally Distributed Economic Development, Culture, and Media
1.5 Conclusion: Three Themes in this Review
References

Part I Out of the Past: Cultural and Organizational Success Factors of the Korean Wave
2 The Development of Hallyu: Cultural Success Factors that Made the Korean Miracle and the Korean Wave
2.1 Two Chapters to Disaggregate the Background of the Korean Wave
2.2 Culture and Different Organizational Development Choices
2.2.1 Setting the Stage: The Developmental Split between North and South Korea in the Same Homogeneous Culture
2.2.2 Four Factors that Make a Unique Conundrum in Korean Development and in the Korean Wave

2.2.3 Theoretical Summary: Two Virtuous Cycles in Korean Culture Helped the Economic 'Korean Miracle' Keep Growing into the Cultural Korean Wave
2.3 Five Comparable Factors Encouraging Cultural Homogeneity in the Korean Peninsula
2.3.1 Linguistic Isolation from World History
2.3.2 Geographic Isolation in World History
2.3.3 Geopolitical Isolation and Stable Cultural Hierarchies
2.3.4 Ancient Homogeneous Culture, Yet Missing an Aristocratic Leadership
2.4 Durable Ancient Cultural Forms Remain in the Modern Korean Wave
2.4.1 Singing
2.4.2 Archery

2.4.3 Martial Arts Blending into Performance and Dance
2.4.4 Body Beauty, Fashion Clothing, and Public Formal Style
2.4.5 Public Events
2.4.6 Technological Innovation: Science and Civilization in Korea
2.5 Summary of Hybrid Culture and Hybrid Organizational Choices in Korean Development into the Korean Wave
2.5.1 From Economic Miracle into the Proto-Korean Wave in the 1980s
References
3 Organizational Success Factors of the Korean Wave: Modern Development Decisions and Conditions That Made the Korean Miracle and the Korean Wave

3.1 Development Gauntlets, Good Choices, and Good Accidents
3.1.1 Theory: Four Levels Down the Development Gauntlet to a Cultural Wave
3.2 Good Accidents and Good Choices: Ancillary Factors Down the Development Gauntlet
3.2.1 Good Accidents
3.2.2 Good Choices
3.3 Digital Telecommunications: A Good Domestic National Test Bed for the Korean Wave
3.4 Korean Culture: An Odd Domestic National Test Bed for the Korean Wave
3.5 Conclusion
References
Part II Into the Present: Before and After Lockdown
4 The Korean Wave Before and After a More Digital Post-pandemic Era