scholarly journals The Digital Transformation of the Korean Music Industry and the Global Emergence of K-Pop

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimmyn Parc ◽  
Shin Dong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Korean Music ◽  
Technology Advancement

There are a number of voices who blame digitization for having a number of negative effects on the music industry including a decline in album sales, copyright infringement, unfair royalty payments, and competition with foreign multinationals. Yet, the global emergence of Korean pop music or K-pop suggests a different narrative, particularly given that its growth was largely unexpected among industry experts. Understanding the key to its international breakthrough can thus produce meaningful lessons for the music industries of other countries for their own further take-off. This constitutes the focus for this paper. Digitization has influenced various sectors of the Korean music industry such as business, society, and consumers. It has also transformed the management focus of the industry from analog to digital, from offline to online, from albums to songs, from specialization to integration, from domestic providers to international suppliers, from audio sound to visual images, from possessing to accessing, and from limited integration to synergistic network. This signifies that embracing technology advancement can enhance the competitiveness of cultural industries.

Digital Transformation and Disruptive Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Danai Danai ◽  
Suppanunta Suppanunta ◽  
Sukontharos Sukontharos ◽  
Thitita Thitita ◽  
Anyapha Anyapha
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Korean Music ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Key Press

The digital transformation disruptive on music industry in South Korea expresses objectives are to study risk and disruptive technology on an impact in the music businesses; also, how Korean music industry manages during in the digital era. Besides, using risk theory, demand and supply theory, including disruptive information to support. Methods are used mostly via qualitative data. The result finds from risk that has affected both consumers and producers. Companies and labels in music industry may lose incomes and powers to control the market. Consumers may pay much costs to consume products. On the other hands, consumers have varieties of channels to access in music. Moreover, South Korea adopts and creates the developed technological products to survive in digital age. Technology and digital transformation in music industry have both advantages and disadvantages to the role of people who play in this field. To cope with the changes, industry needs to develop and adapt itself on surviving and handling the competition from more competitors and technology. They should find an approach to adapt, continue and develop an efficiency in the manufacturing sector such as seeking strategies to grasp market, generate another source of revenues by viewing both competitors and partners. Opening minds to challenges for deploying, launching, digitizing, and modernizing the new digital capabilities deeply on how distribution network be integrated into the music industry transformation process to interact with the customers. Because the digital transformation has appeared as a key press in society rather than an option from now on. Keywords: Digital, Disruptive, Music, South Korea, Transformation

Commercialising the sound of the people: Pleng Luktoong and the Thai pop music industry

Popular Music ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubonrat Siriyuvasak
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Country Music ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
The Past ◽  
Previous Generation ◽  
Indigenous Music ◽  
The People

Since Thailand's Copyright Act became law in 1979 an indigenous music industry has emerged. In the past, the small recording business was concentrated on two aspects: the sale of imported records and the manufacture of popular, mainly Lukkroong music, and classical records. However, the organisation of the Association of Music Traders – an immediate reaction to the enforcement of the Copyright law – coupled with the advent of cassette technology, has transformed the faltering gramophone trade. Today, middle-class youngsters appreciate Thai popular music in contrast to the previous generation who grew up with western pop and rock. Young people in the countryside have begun to acquire a taste for the same music as well as enjoy a wider range of Pleng Luktoong, the country music with which they identify. How did this change which has resulted in the creation of a new pleasure industry come about? And what are some of the consequences of this transformation.

Testing the Theory of Communication and Uncertainty Management in the Context of Digital Transformation with Transformational Leadership as a Moderator

2021 ◽  
pp. 232948842110239
Author(s):  
Masaki Matsunaga
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Uncertainty Management ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

Digital transformation provokes a great deal of uncertainty among employees. To gain insights into how employees manage the uncertainty driven by digital transformation and also how leaders can support them, this study has drawn on the theory of communication and uncertainty management (TCUM), which posits that the impact of uncertainty varies by how individuals appraise it and social support enhances positive appraisal. Based on those tenets, the current study advanced the following hypotheses: (a) uncertainty has direct and indirect negative effects on employees’ appraisal of digital transformation, self-efficacy, and job performance; (b) in contrast, direct supervisors’ transformational leadership has direct and indirect positive effects on appraisal, self-efficacy, and job performance; and also (c) transformational leadership moderates the impact of uncertainty. SEM with 4-wave time-separated data ( N = 873 employee-supervisor dyads in Japan) found support for these hypotheses. The obtained findings are discussed with reference to TCUM, transformational leadership, and other relevant literature.

Sistem Keamanan Gedung Menggunakan Kinect Xbox 360 Dengan Metode Skeletal Tracking

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1137-1142
Author(s):  
Hamdi Alchudri ◽  
Zaini
Keyword(s):  
Optical Data ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Transmission Method ◽  
Sensor Reading ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Cloud Server ◽  
User Data ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The incidence of fire and theft is very threatening and causes disruption to people's lifestyles, both due to natural and human factors resulting in loss of life, damage to the environment, loss of property and property, and psychological impacts. The purpose of this study is to create a building security system using Kinect Xbox 360 which can be used to detect fires and loss of valuable objects. The data transmission method uses the Internet of Things (IoT) and skeletal tracking. Skeletal detection uses Arduino Uno which is connected to a fire sensor and Kinect to detect suspicious movements connected to a PC. Kinect uses biometric authentication to automatically enter user data by recognizing objects and detecting skeletons including height, facial features and shoulder length. The ADC (Analog to Digital Converter) value of the fire sensor reading has a range between 200-300. The fire sensor detects the presence of fire through optical data analysis containing ultraviolet, infrared or visual images of fire. The data generated by Kinect by detecting the recognition of the skeleton of the main point of the human body known as the skeleton, where the reading point is authenticated by Kinect from a range of 1.5-3 meters which is declared the optimal measurement, and if a fire occurs, the pump motor will spray water randomly. to extinguish the fire that is connected to the internet via the wifi module. The data displayed is in the form of a graph on the Thingspeak cloud server service. Notification of fire and theft information using the delivery system from input to database

Music, Borders and Nationhood in Algeria

Algeria ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
The Core ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Western Algeria ◽  
Eastern Morocco ◽  
Musical Genres

This chapter looks at the role of musical genres in the borderland between Oran in Western Algeria and Oujda in Eastern Morocco – in many ways a single cultural and economic zone that is distinct from the core of each of their respective nations. Once this had been the boundary of the Ottoman Empire, but at other times a refuge for political dissidents from either side in their many anti-colonial struggles. Today the cities are economically linked by smuggling and culturally by language, common tradition and strong musical connections – the raï pop music industry is strong on both sides of the border, but as important is the local form of ‘classical’ Andalous music tarab el gharnati and Berber ‘folk’ genres. Music itself marks boundaries of taste, heritage and allegiance, and these often have a tangential relationship to those demarcated by nationalist discourses. The chapter considers the ways in which musical practices preserve a sense of regional identity and allegiance despite the formal closure of the border in 1994. It looks at the economic and cultural consequences of this relationship and at the efforts of the Algerian government to maintain formal boundaries and address the broader context of cross-border cultural flow, not only with Morocco, but, increasingly, the wider mediated world.

Analogue or Digital Recording

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
Peter Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Music Industry ◽  
Digital Recording ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Original Performance ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
Considerable Concern

Recordings have progressed from wax to shellac, vinyl, tapes, and CDs with recent variants of downloads or streaming. In every case the sound and type of distortion are different. Nevertheless, they all have impact on every type of music and the quality of reproduction with different challenges for each genre. This chapter details many examples. There is no ideal answer because all systems produce music that is distorted from the original performance. It is a matter of personal preference as to which is favoured. Of considerable concern to the music industry—and to audiences interested in listening to classical or jazz—is the trend of the mass market pop music to be heard via streaming. This produces very poor financial returns for the industry, and to most performers. A discussion of future scenarios is timely and is included in this overview.

Cultural technology

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Chen
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Korean Music ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Music Film

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline a framework for marketing cultural goods (e.g. music) to global markets by examining modes of entry and positioning strategies used by media producers of the South Korean music industry. Design/methodology/approach – An historic analysis was implemented to investigate the modalities and structures through which cultural products are produced and disseminated. Data for this study came from 314 articles collected from www.allkpop.com, a leading English-language, South Korean popular culture news site. Findings – The cultural technology framework consists of the institutionalization of cultural technology, exportation of cultural content, collaborations with local talent, and joint ventures with local markets. Research limitations/implications – The findings emerge from an analysis of South Korean popular music industries, and further research is needed to generalize the results across cultural industries. Practical implications – The cultural technology framework can be applied to cultural industries such as music, film, comics, and art, where culture and language could be barriers to adoption. Originality/value – This study outlines a framework for the modes of entry and positioning strategies of cultural goods (e.g. music) in international markets. Extant literature has examined global marketing from the purview of durable consumer goods and brands, with limited insights into cultural products. More broadly, this paper addresses the call for more qualitative inquiry into international marketing topics.

Nordic Modernity and the Structure of the Musical Landscape

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Holt
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Global Modernity

This chapter outlines macro structural changes in the Nordic music landscape, drawing from sociological theory of modernity. The chapter identifies popular music in wider tensions in Nordic modernity, particularly in relation to shifting hegemonic cultures to uncover the underlying dynamics of tensions between shifting mainstream formations and their alternatives. Following this logic, musical style and taste involve positionings in relation to issues of capitalism, nationalism, and mass media. The chapter analyzes changes in the region’s music landscape within the region’s evolving modernity, particularly in the transition from a national to a more global modernity. This is illustrated by the declining status of Stockholm’s Anglo pop music industry as the region’s center into a more decentralized and networked transnational cultural geography.

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