Abstract
To situate the Major League Baseball fandom in the conjuncture of the economic crisis in the late 1990s, Cho explores both the significance and crisis of nation in South Korea. This chapter illuminates how the power and role of Korean governments have changed rather than drastically decreased as a result of their compromise with the International Monetary Fund. Although globalization and the economic crisis critically damaged the popular acceptance of nationalism and national development, it also shows that a version of economic nationalism could supplant the discourse of reform based on complex interactions among political and economic forces, as well as populistic desire. Conclusively, the chapter illuminates how nationalism has been challenged, how it has changed, and how it has survived globalization in South Korea.
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Cho, Y. (2020). Sport and Crisis of Nation Under Globalization. In: Global Sports Fandom in South Korea . Palgrave Series of Sport in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3196-5_2
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