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asia
asian culture
asian history
asian interest
asian studies
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cultural studies
culture
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ethnic studies
fandom
film industry
film studies
gender studies
Hallyu
human sexuality
k-drama
k-pop
kdrama
korea
korean
korean culture
korean history
korean interest
korean studies
kpop
masculinity
media industry
media studies
non fiction
nonfiction
pop culture
popular culture
race
race and ethnic studies
racial studies
romance
rutgers
rutgers university
rutgers university press
sexuality
sexuality studies
social science
south korea
tourism
tourists
womens studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781978841567
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Finding Mr. Perfect explores the romantic relationships between Korean men and women who were inspired by romantic Korean televisual depictions of Korean masculinity to travel to Korea as tourists. Author Min Joo Lee argues that disparate racialized erotic desires of Korean pop culture fans, foreign tourists to Korea, Korean men, and the Korean nation converge to configure the interracial and transnational relationships between these tourists and Korean men. Lee observes how racial prejudices are developed and manifested through interracial and transnational intimate desires and encounters. This book is the first to examine the interracial relationships between Hallyu tourists and Korean men. Furthermore, it is the first to analyze Korea as a popular romance tourist destination for heterosexual women. Finding Mr. Perfect illuminates South Korean popular culture’s transnational fandom and tourism as a global phenomenon where fantasies and realities converge to have a tangible impact on individual lives.
MIN JOO LEE is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
