Tag: Younghan Cho
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 38, 2021, Issue 18 | Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture, 2021, 3. Special Issue: Olympics
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Taiwan’s Olympic Hero: The Legend of Asian Iron Man, C. K. Yang by Hsienwei Kuo & Chinfang Kuo.
Excellent exploration of the historical development of South Korean MLB fans
In his book Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community (Palgrave Macmillan), Younghan Cho explores the transformation of cultural and national identity of global sports fans in South Korea, which has undergone extensive cultural and economic globalization since the 1990s. Our reviewer Mark Brooke is much impressed by the book, and not least by the author’s employment of the netnographic method.
The International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 36, 2019, Issue 7–8 | Asian Sport Celebrity: The Nexus of Race, Ethnicity, and Regionality
The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. As well as regular issues, the IJHS also offers regionally-focused issues on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East, and special issues each year on significant topics and themes.
Fotbollens mäktiga globalisering
I den här recensionsessän undersöker Bill Sund fotbollens globalisering utifrån tre böcker, Global Perspectives on Football in Afrika: Visualising the Game av Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher & Ciraj Rassool (red); Football in Asia: History, Culture and Business av Younghan Cho (red); och Soccer in the Middle East av Alon Raab & Issam Khalidi (red), samtliga från Routledge.