In the Korean context, the structural logic of globalization and the recent history of the global economy can ironically be read as rationalizing the strong state. The absence of a universalizable logic connecting economic globalization to the diminution of state power accentuates the importance of attention to the normative or ideological dimensions of global order. in the national media industry, can shape and deflect its own participation in global regimes to a larger extent than typically conceded by globalization scholars.
Globalization has many faces. In the area of economics, practices favoring free trade, private enterprise, foreign investment, and liberalized trade prevail. With respect to social and cultural forces, new consumption patterns and lifestyles with consequences for migration and social organization have arisen. In turn, the flows of people, goods, information, and images reflect the influence of communication processes (Featherstone, 1990; Appadurai, 1996). New identities and imaginaries are thus constituted.