Introduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka Mōri -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee -- Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi.