"South Korea and Latin America are major players in the international trade in TV drama, beyond its Anglo domination. They have also intersected with one another's imaginaries, initially through migrant labor and businesses, and later via television exchanges. Ben Han navigates this complex terrain in a subtle, supple, brilliant way, as personal experience, political economy, and textual analysis meet up. Bravo!"— Toby Miller, Profesor Distinguido at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, and author of The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture
"Han offers an incisive analysis of contemporary South Korean television productions that construct Latin America as a monolithic 'Other' to assert South Korea's status as an exceptional non-Western, postcolonial nation. Through a sophisticated engagement with cultural criticism and theories from Latin American, Asian, and Asian–Latin American studies, this book exposes the tensions within South Korea's pursuit of worldliness and multiculturalism as a national project. Reckoning with the World is an eye-opening read."— Paula Park, Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rice University, and author of Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/o America to the Philippines, 1898–1964
