<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear KS list members, so sorry for all the emails. Please also note the following online event. Please register using the Google form and a ZOOM link will be sent to you one day prior to the seminar. Hope to see you there.<br><br>All the best,<br>Sandy.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">_____________</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2024</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Seminar 6<br><br></span></b><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i>'</i></font><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"><i>State of Criminality: Cinematic Depictions of 1970s and 1980s South Korea</i></b><i>.</i><i>'</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><i><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:start">Prof. Kyung Moon Hwang (ANU)</span><br style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;text-align:start"></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><font face="arial, sans-serif">Room G03, Learning & Teaching Building (LTB), Clayton VIC 3168 & Zoom</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">4th October, 2pm AEST</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Abstract: </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">South Korean feature films set in the 1970s and 80s have tended to highlight the criminality of the period, led by the authoritarian state itself. The idea is that, as an increasingly brutal autocracy veering toward fascist rule in the 1970s and 1980s, the South Korean military dictatorships blurred if not decimated the line between legality and illegality. In addition to highlighting the underworld, these films have featured the instruments of state enforcement, such as the KCIA or police, in order to accentuate the overlap between such actors and criminals. This presentation demonstrates how such cinematic portrayals have sought to historicise this era of South Korean military rule through the notion of state criminality. It will do so through an analysis of the semiotics, visual cues, and storylines of primarily two films set in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively: “The Drug King” (</span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Mayag-wang</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> [U Min-ho, 2018]) and “Memories of Murder” (</span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Sarin ui chu-eok</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> [Bong Jun-ho, 2003]). These two works are representative of South Korean historical films that establish strong historical connections to the country’s history of developmentalist dictatorships while implying the lingering presence of that past in contemporary times.</span>  <font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px"></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>Bio: <br><br></b></span></font><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Kyung Moon Hwang is Korea Foundation Professor in the School of Culture, History, & Language at the Australian National University and currently serves as Director of the ANU Korea Institute. He is the author of </span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> (2023), </span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">A History of Korea</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> (Third Edition, 2021), </span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Past Forward: Essays in Korean History</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> (2019), </span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State </i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">(2015), and </span><i style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px">Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea</i><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px"> (2004). At ANU he teaches courses on Korean history, society, culture, and language.</span><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB">Register <a href="https://forms.gle/2A7sEzaZBB1kJoNT6" target="_blank">here</a> for a ZOOM link.<br><br></span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB">Please contact Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub Coordinator<br>Ms Sandy Nguyen for further details.</span><a href="mailto:Sandy.nguyen1@monash.edu" target="_blank">Sandy.Nguyen1@monash.edu</a> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt">__________________</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></p></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Kind Regards,</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sandy Nguyen</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i>MUKSRH Coordinator</i><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.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