<div dir="ltr">Dear Korean Studies mailing list, <div><br></div><div>Please post the following for us (thank you):<div><br></div><div>Dear all, please see below a list of exciting Korean Studies events to be held at Monash University, Australia, in 2020. <br><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Monash University Korean Studies Events
2020</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Semester 1:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">27<sup>th</sup>
April, 3-6 pm (Menzies H6) (Monash Korean Studies Seminar Series)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Movie: <b><i>‘Shusenjo’: The Main Battleground of
Comfort Women Issue </i>followed by Q&A and discussion with movie director
Miki Dezaki. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Synopsis:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The
“comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day
diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country
across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women”
are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral
testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery, and the
definition of coercive recruitment. Credibility, legitimacy and influence serve
as the rallying cry for all those involved in the battle. In addition, this
largely domestic battleground has been shifted to the international arena,
commanding the participation of various state and non-state actors and
institutions from all over the world. This film delves deep into the most
contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and
detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the
biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or
sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited?
And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former
comfort women?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Bio:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Miki
Dezaki is a graduate of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia
University in Tokyo. He worked for the Japan Exchange Teaching Program
for five years in Yamanashi and Okinawa before becoming a Buddhist monk in
Thailand for one year. He is also known as "Medamasensei" on
Youtube, where he has made comedy videos and videos on social issues in Japan.
His most notable video is “Racism in Japan,” which led to numerous online
attacks by Japanese neo-nationalists who attempted to deny the existence of
racism and discrimination against Zainichi Koreans (Koreans with permanent
residency in Japan) and Burakumin (historical outcasts still discriminated
today). "Shusenjo" is his directorial debut. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6<sup>th</sup>
May, Matheson Library (T1/T2), 3-5 pm (Monash Korean Studies Seminar Series)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b> Assoc. Prof. Mira Kim (UNSW)</b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘<b><span style="color:black">Applying SFL-based Theme Analysis to Translation between
English and Korean’</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Abstract:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Systemic Functional
Linguistics (SFL) has been used as a theoretical framework in Translation
Studies (TS) since its early stages of development (e.g. Catford (1965); House
(1977/1997)). However, as Munday (2012: 137) explains, its influence started to
become conspicuous from the 1990s when discourse analysis came to prominence in
TS (e.g. Hatim and Mason (1990, 1997), Baker (1992/2011), Bell (1991), Steiner
(2002, 2004), just to name a few). In spite of the growth in its applications
in TS, there is a gap between SFL and TS when it comes to the application of
Theme analysis, as pointed out in Munday (2000). A primary reason can be found
in the fact that the way Theme is realized differs from language to language
and yet descriptions on Theme and its realization in languages other than
English are scarce. Korean is one of the languages that have never been
seriously studied from a SFL perspective until before Kim (2007b). Against this
backdrop, this paper will discuss how SFL-based Theme analysis has been applied
in translation between English and Korean with a particular focus on major
difficulties in the application and ways in which they have been addressed (Kim
2007a, 2011a, 2011b). It concludes some suggestions for collaboration between
SFL and TS scholars. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> Bio:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 18pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">A/Prof <span class="gmail-il">Mira</span> Kim is a researcher, educator and practitioner in the
field of translation and interpreting. She has been teaching both practical and
theoretical courses since 2000. Her main research areas include text analysis
for translation, translation quality assessment, translator education, systemic
functional linguistics and personalised language learning.</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">20<sup>th</sup>
May, ‘Premier’s Room’, Monash Sport, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">42 Scenic Boulevard,<span style="color:black"> 4-6 pm </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Korean
Studies Jobs Fair</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Monash
Korean Studies invites all to our inaugural Jobs Fair, an exciting, two-hour
event for those interested in Korea-related career opportunities. The event
will be opened by the Honourable Mr. Hanil Cheon, Governor-General of the
Republic of Korea and feature short talks from Mr. Mark Painting, the CEO of
NAATI, Mr. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michael Simmonds, Monash University <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Director, Office
of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Global Engagement)</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">as well as industry representatives and coordinators from
various relevant study pathways. The event will include catering from Cinque
Lire. See you all there! </span><span style="color:rgb(237,125,49)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">17<sup>th</sup>
July, <b>Biennial Melbourne Korean Studies Meeting</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Details:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Date: Friday July 17th 2020 (10am-5pm, followed by dinner)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Venue: S901/S902, Building S, Caulfield Campus, Monash University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Background:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Biennial Meeting is a gathering for all
academics (staff and postgraduate students) in the Melbourne Metropolitan Area
who teach and research in areas related to Korean Studies. This will be
the second Biennial Meeting following the earlier successful event
staged at Caulfield in October 2018. The goal of the meeting is to get to know
each other's work better, form possible links for future collaboration and,
ultimately, to form a scholarly community in Melbourne dedicated to the
study of Korea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The format of the meeting will be research
presentations (20 minutes plus Q&A), followed by roundtable discussion. A
catered lunch and dinner at a restaurant will be provided. You may choose to
give a presentation, or otherwise just participate as an attendee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:18pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Semester
2:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dr. Kyungja
Jung</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (UTS). Matheson Library, T1/T2, 3-5 pm. TBA</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">7<sup>th</sup>
August, Matheson Library, T1/T2. 3-5 pm. </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Assoc.
Prof. Jo Elfving-Hwang (UWA).</span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstract
and Bio to come.</span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">21st
August, Matheson Library T1/T2. 3-5 pm</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dr. Thomas
Baudinette (Macquarie University). </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">‘</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Idol shipping culture: Exploring
queer sexuality among fans of K-pop’</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
Abstract: </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">The practice of imagining idols within romantic and sexual
relationships known as “shipping” is central to the global fandom of K-pop,
allowing fans to develop affective relationships with their favorite
celebrities through creative practices such as the writing of fan fiction. In
particular, shipping practices that reimagine the members of popular boy groups
such as EXO and BTS within homoerotic relationships are especially common among
both heterosexual female fans and fans who express queer sexualities as a
method of both affectively articulating their fandom as well as exploring their
broader sexual desires via K-pop consumption. This chapter explores the
homoerotic practice of shipping idols as a lens into the broader study of
gender and sexuality in relation to K-pop idols, demonstrating the importance
of fans’ sexual desires and attraction to K-pop fandom culture. The chapter
begins by charting the emergence of shipping practices within Korean fandom,
exploring how K-pop production companies strategically drew upon Japanese <i>yaoi
</i>culture to encourage young women to consume K-pop, thus producing spaces
within Korea’s patriarchal society where women’s sexual desires can be safely
explored. The chapter then turns to an analysis of international shipping
practices, presenting a comparative case study of BTS shipping within Japanese
and Anglophone fandom spaces. This comparative analysis reveals that while BTS
shipping in Japan tends to draw upon rigid logics derived from <i>yaoi </i>culture
that conceptualize homoerotic relationships between men via sexual practices
and behaviors divorced from identity, Anglophone shipping tends to instead
overtly deploy North American LGBT identity politics. Nevertheless, the chapter
argues that both practices possess queer potentials that allow fans to affectively
explore their sexuality, affirming their sexual desires for K-pop idols. The
chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of shipping in affirming the
presence of queer fans within global K-pop culture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Keywords: shipping, queer fandom, sexual desire,
<i>yaoi</i></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bio:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thomas Baudinette </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">is Lecturer in International Studies at
Macquarie University, Sydney. To date, his research has drawn upon the
ethnographic tradition to investigate Japanese queer popular culture, including
its spread throughout East and Southeast Asia. His first book, <i>Regimes of
Desire: Young Gay Men and Masculinity in Japan</i>,<i> </i>is forthcoming with
University of Michigan Press. He is currently conducting research on K-pop
consumption amongst queer communities in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
and writing a second book entitled <i>Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity,
Fandom and Queer Popular Culture</i>. He was awarded the 2016 Ian Nish Prize by
the British Association of Japanese Studies. More information about Thomas’s
research can be found at </span><a href="http://thomasbaudinette.wordpress.com"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">http://thomasbaudinette.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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