ABSTRACT
Postcolonial theory interestingly is rarely invoked in discussing the Korea/Japan relationship historically, but would seem to add a major dimension to the analysis of cultural interaction between the two countries and the continuing place of the large Korean minority within Japanese society and the new relationships between the countries mediated by consumption, sport and popular culture. Culture as an element within globalization and its variants including colonialism and cultural imperialism, while sited within the political economy of those movements also has its own dynamics. Art is easily implicated in the project of colonialism, through metropolitan art education, institutionalized and politically controlled art exhibitions, the exclusion or banning of the non-co-operative and through the internalization by colonized artists of the aesthetics and political project of the colonizers. Others however resist, even if that resistance takes a symbolic form, as in Indonesia under the Dutch and in India during the British colonial period.
