Questioning the Market: How Does the South Korean "Camming" (Beot-bang) Market Grow?

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yuna Hwang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/questioning-the-market-how-did-the-south-korean-camming-beot-bang-market-grow/. About the post: Drawing on new economic sociology to consider markets as social networks, along with a historical-institutional perspective emphasizing the sociopolitical contexts that enable market construction and operation (Chun and Lee, 2023), this work approaches Boet-bang markets as socio-cultural constructs rather than a priori phenomenon. So, in what political and institutional context was the Beot-bang market created in Korea? (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)