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7a.1 Continuum of intra-Asia flow of popular culture 95
7b.1 Min-joon and Song-yi looking down at Seoul from a high vantage point 106
7b.2 Naoki and Hana look at Osaka from a vantage point 106
7b.3 Naoki tells Hana the important symbolism of the screw 108
7b.4 Symbolic heirloom 108
7b.5 Dazzling private library 110
8b.1 Carsick Cars playing in Underworld, February 8, 2011 131
9a.1 Interaction flow during Candlelight 2008 140
9a.2 The original home page of YouTube Korea 141
11.1 The transformation of Kang Ho-dong into a sentimental girl on the
television show Cool Kiz on the Block (Uridongne yecheneug) 178
11.2 Dust cover for the 1939 edition of Flower Tales 184
11.3 Rui walks away from the billboard image of his former lover Shizuka,
visually juxtaposing the shōjo/shōnen ideal in the same frame 189
14.1 Ji Jin-hee. Ji seems to possess a personae especially favored by Men’s UNO.
First drawn posi tive reviews for his portrayal of a surgeon in the melodrama
Love Letter, Ji’s breakthrough came in late 2003 with the period drama Dae
Jang Geum (also known as Jewel in the Palace) 218
15.1 Shanzhai Paul Smith bags in Shenzhen 233
15.2 Transporting Van Gogh in Dafen 235
15.3 Gallery in Dafen 238
15.4 A painter at work 239