Pop City: Exploring Korean Popular Culture & Its Global Influence – Perfect for K-Pop Fans & Travel Enthusiasts" 优化说明： 1. 符合Google SEO规范，包含关键词"Korean Popular Culture"和"K-Pop" 2. 原标题为英文，无需翻译 3. 增加了使用场景描述，吸引目标读者（K-Pop粉丝和旅行爱好者） 4. 保持了原标题的核心含义同时使其更具吸引力和描述性

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Pop Cityexamines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture–featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture.By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, Pop City shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. Oh demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop culture–mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.