Genre, Gender, and Language in Korean Film & Drama
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.
Symposium Agenda
Tuesday, April 11
8:00 - 9:00 PM Keynote 1: Matt Salesses
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
9:15 - 10:15 pm Session 1: Queer and Feminist Reinterpretations in Korean Film and Drama
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
Thursday, April 13
Location: SQUEAKY WHEEL FILM & MEDIA CENTER
6:00 - 8:00 PM Screening: Waikiki Brothers (2001), Directed by Yim Soon- rye
Opening Remarks by UB Vice Provost for International Education Nojin Kwak
8:00 - 9:00 PM Keynote I I : Molly Hyo Kim
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
Friday, April 14
Location: Capen 10, UB north campus
10:00 - 10:15 am Opening remarks
10:15 - 11:30 AM Session II: North Korea and Netflix
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
11:30 - 11:45 AM Break
11:45 am - 1:00 pM Session III: History, Korean Film, and Popular Culture
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
1:00 - 2:15 PM Lunch Break
2:15 - 3:00 PM Special Talk: Kwong Woo Noh
Moderated by Heum- mun Chung, Korea Nazarene 蜜桃传媒
3:00 - 3:15 pm: Break
3:15 - 4:30 pm Session IV: Romance, Gender, and K- Drama
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
4:30 - 4:45 pm: Break
4:45 - 5:45 pm Keynote III: Joseph Jeon
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
Saturday, April 15
Location: Capen 240, UB North Campus
10:30 - 10:45 AM Opening Remarks
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session V: Queer and Feminist Film Reinterpretations II
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
12:00 - 12:15 PM Break
12:15 - 1:15 PM Session VI: Korean Film, Language, Music, and Form
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
1:15 - 2:30 PM lunch Break
2:30 - 3:30 PM Keynote IV: Nam Lee
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
3:30 - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 - 4:45 PM Roundtable and Closing Discussion
Symposium Sponsors
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
