Contents -- I Political Economy of the Online Game Industry -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sociocultural Interpretations of Digital Korea -- 3 Political Economy of the Korean Online Game Industry -- II Game, Culture, and Digital Economy -- 4 eSports and Television Business in the Digital Economy -- 5 Professional Online Game Players as New Media Workers -- 6 Online Game Fans -- III Globalization and Game Empire -- 7 Adventure of Local Online Games toward Globalization -- 8 From the Cottage Industry to Transnational Media Giants -- Notes -- References -- Index.