<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Korean Studies Program and the Korea Foundation would like to<br>invite you to attend the 103rd Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum.<br><br>Title: "Age of the Cadre: North Korean Literature and Film of the 1980s"<br>
Speaker: Immanuel Kim, PhD candidate at the University of California’s Program in Comparative Literature<br>Date: WEDNESDAY, November 17<br>Time: 6 p.m.<br>Location: Room 702, New Millennium Hall, Yonsei University<br><br>
No RSVP required. For directions, please refer to<br></font><a href="http://gsis.yonsei.ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007" target="_blank"><font color="#3366ff" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://gsis<font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">.</font><span class="il"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">yonsei</font></span><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">.</font>ac.kr/html/content.asp?code=001007</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#3366ff">.<br>
<br></font>Questions? Contact </font><a href="mailto:renateclasen@googlemail.com"><font color="#0000cc" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">renateclasen@googlemail.com</font></a><br><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is the ONLY forum in the fall semester 2010.<br>
We hope to see you on the 17th of November.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Hyuk-Rae Kim<br></font><a href="mailto:hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hyukrae@yonsei.ac.kr</font></a></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Professor of Korean Studies<br>Graduate School of International Studies<br>Yonsei University<br><br>biography | <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: '맑은 고딕'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: KO; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN-US">Immanuel Kim received his BA at the University of California, Irvine in English and Comparative Literature, and studied under Jacques Derrida and J Hillis Miller. He, then, went to England to receive a MA at Warwick University in Philosophy and Literature. Now, he is at the University of California, Riverside as a PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature department, specializing in North Korean literature and film. </span></span></font></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">abstract | In 1972, the DPRK revised its Constitution with a new set of discourses that claimed the family as the cell of the society. The explicit emphases on collectivity over individualism and severe punishment for those who betray the DPRK were methods of enforcing the people to continue with their struggle for revolution. The Party called this “continuous revolution” (<i>gaesok hyeokmyeong</i>), which ran alongside “family revolution” (<i>gajok hyeokmyeong</i>). </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In this paper, I will discuss two works: Baek Nam-ryong’s novel <i>Beot</i> (Friend) (1987) and a comedy film series called <i>Wuri Jip Munjae</i> (Our Family’s Problem) (1973-1988). In these two works, the nuclear family faces internal problems that threaten the harmony, the collectivity of the family unit. In Baek Nam-ryong’s <i>Friend</i>, the central characters plead for a divorce, and in <i>Our Family’s Problem</i>, the characters entertain individualism that becomes the source of all social problems. </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In these two works, the main cadre disciplines, critiques, and controls the characters in the narrative. I call this <i>self-reflexive criticism</i>, where the subject and the object of criticism are based on the same referent. In other words, the main cadre (the subject) critiques the other cadres in the narratives (the object) for intervening in other people’s personal matters, which the main cadre does himself in order to resolve the problems. I hope to reveal some of the social problems that emerged in the 1980s in North Korea by showing the relationship between the cadres and the people in these two works.</font></span></p>