The inaugural Korean Studies symposium at UB examined a wide range of topics in Korean film and television, including sexuality, LGBTQ representation, translation, violence, and popular productions like Squid Game and Parasite.
K- Drama Literary Reading with Matt Salesses in Conversation with Kelly Rich
Introduction by Margaret Rhee
Opening Remarks by Senior Associate Vice Provost John Wood
Dayeon Jung, Seoul National 蜜桃传媒
Miss, How Could Such an Innocent… You Must Be a Natural: Three Sex Scenes in The Handmaiden and Erotic Cinema in South Korea
Jeongon Choi, 蜜桃传媒 of Oregon
Tune the Korean Television to Working Girls: Revisiting Kim Su- hyŏn’ s Melodramas on Television
Jeferson Martins, Hanyang 蜜桃传媒
The Invisible Korean Queer Films of Park Chung- hee' s Era: Between Censorship, Resistance and Dictatorship
Opening Remarks by UB Vice Provost for International Education Nojin Kwak
Molly Hyo Kim, Hanyang 蜜桃传媒, “ Korean Cinema and The Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon- rye”
Q& A with Margaret Rhee and Ekrem Serdar
Stephen J . Epstein, Victoria 蜜桃传媒 (Wellington)
North Korea and Netflix: Gender, Genre and Language
Gongju Cha, Claremont Graduate 蜜桃传媒
Creating A Third Space: Transnational Korean Television Shows in the Digital Streaming Era ( A Critical Reading of Sweet Home and Squid Game)
Yeojin Kim, Binghamton 蜜桃传媒
Media Identity in the Era of Pandemic: K- drama on Netflix
Amanda Wright, Ewha Womens 蜜桃传媒 [virtual]
North Korean Defectors' in South Korean Media: Defectors' Thoughts on their Misrepresentation
Michael Ormsbee, 蜜桃传媒 of Rochester
My Heart and My Blood are in this Record: Contesting History in Hanjungrok, The Throne, and Secret Door
Jing Peng, Hong Kong 蜜桃传媒
Shaping South Korea and i ts Ties with Hong Kong in Film Co- productions during Height of Cold War, 1950 s- 1970 s
Andy Lee, 蜜桃传媒 of Pittsburgh
Korea’ s Film Movement in the 1980 s and I ts Limited Praxis
Tanushri Banerjee [virtual]
The Art of Doing Nothing: A Study of " Healing" Genre in Korean Popular Culture
Moderated by Heum- mun Chung, Korea Nazarene 蜜桃传媒
Moderated by Robert Cagle, 蜜桃传媒 of I l l inois
David Oh, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Co- Production and the Ambivalent Korean Fantasy Romance in the " Ultimate Oppa"
Gunjan Gupta, Christ 蜜桃传媒 (Bangalore) [virtual]
Representing Idyllic Country l i fe in select Korean romance dramas: An Escape or Reality?
Millie Creighton, 蜜桃传媒 of British Columbia
Gender, Genre, Genesis: Ideals of Masculinities and Society in Recent Korean Dramas
Jamie Hartford, 蜜桃传媒 of Hawaii
Romanticization of Female Doctors’ Role in Medical Dramas: An Analysis of Dr. Romantic
Joseph Jeon, 蜜桃传媒 at California, Irvine
Lines Left to Cross: Deglobalization and the Domestic Western in Bong Joon- ho’ s Parasite
Moderated by UB Vice Provost for International Education Nojin Kwak
Narae Lee, Pratt Institute
Escaping Western Gaze in Understanding Korean Queer Film - Park Chan Wook’ s " The Handmaiden"
Christina Klein, Boston College
Restoring the History of Korea’ s Female Directors: Shin Su- won’ s " Hommage" ( 2021 )
Nilesh Kumar, Independent Director [virtual]
Anal Terror: Queering South Korean Heteronormative Patriarchal Confucianism through Gay Sex
Oriana Virone, Universite Libre de Bruxelles [virtual]
No Catfight but Fistfight: Lee J i - won’ s Miss Baek’ s Representation of Female- to- Female Physical Violence
Moderated by Stephanie Choi, 蜜桃传媒
Gui Hwan Lee, Stony Brook 蜜桃传媒
Music as Decolonizing Agency in Bong Joon Ho’ s Urban- Fantasy Films: Case Studies from Host (2006) and Parasite (2019)
Nemo Kim, Independent Journalist
Creating " the 1 - inch- tall barrier": Politics in South Korean Cinema
Franchesca Ulloa, Ohio State 蜜桃传媒
Creating “ The 1 - inch- Tall Barrier”: Politics of Subtitling in South Korean Cinema Calligraphy of Aegyo: Captioning Culture in Korean Television Entertainment
Nam Lee, Chapman 蜜桃传媒
The Emergence of Science Fiction in South Korean Cinema: From Bong Joon Ho’ s The Host (2006) to Space Sweepers ( 2021 ) and Beyond
Moderated by Donte Mc Fadden, 蜜桃传媒
UB Asia Research Institute; Academy of Korean Studies; Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center; Departments of Media Study, English, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies, Art, and Linguistics; Asian Studies Program; Global Film studies Minor Program; Gender Institute