2022 Situations International Conference

October 21-22, 2022

Jeju, South Korea

Global Content Provider 

Korean Film and TV Drama as Industry and Entertainment

Invited Speakers

Dr. Suk-Young Kim (UCLA): "To Play or Not to Play: Gamers as Speculative Critics in Recent Korean Netflix Shows"

Dr. Jinhee Choi(King's College London): "Who to Save? Moral Dilemma and Uncertainty in Korean Contemporary Horror, The Priests (2015), The Cursed (2020) and Hellbound (2021)"

Dr. Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University): "Beyond Anti-Communism and National Propaganda: Reevaluating South Korea's State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era"

Dr. Steve Choe (San Francisco State University): "Worlds of Sense and Memory in the K-Drama"

Possible Topics

. The Korean Film Festival: BIFF and Its Others
. Streaming Services in Korea: Netflix and Its Others
. Melodrama and Other Genres in K-Drama
. The Art of Translation: K-Drama and Global Content Provision
. Alternative Histories in Korean TV and Film
. Sexuality and Its Discontents in K-Drama
· Traditional Femininity and Independent Women in K-Drama
· Under Siege: Men, Masculinity and Masculinist Concerns in K-Drama
· National Ethnocentric Interests and Global Migrant Agendas
. LGBTQ Korean Films/Dramas
. Image versus Reality in K-Cinema
. Depictions of Religion in Korean Popular Culture
. Virtual History and Speculative Futures of the Korean Peninsula
. Feminism and the "Me Too" Movement in Korean Culture
. Ilbe, the Alt-right, and Beyond
. Asian Values on Screen: Liberalism and Tradition, Progressivism and Religion
. Screen Translation of Korean Films/Dramas/Webtoons

Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated 4,000-word conference presentation is due 20 August 2022(with abstract and keywords). email: situations@yonsei.ac.kr

Hotel accomodations are provided for those participants whose final papers we accept. No registration fees.