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We are pleased to invite you to attend The Melbourne Metropolitan Korean
Studies Seminar Series organized by Monash University, Australia. Please
see details below for the upcoming seminar.

*The Melbourne Metropolitan Korean Studies Seminar Series *

*‘The South Korean Film Industry’*

-Presentation by *Prof. Sangjoon Lee*, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore

*Date: Thursday 10 May 2018, 4pm-6pm*

*Location: Matheson Library, Room T4, Clayton Campus, Monash University*

*Abstract*: South Korean cinema has been one of the most striking case
studies of non-western cinema success stories in the age of the neo-liberal
world order where Hollywood dominates the world’s mind, heart, and soul.
Under the tsunami of America-led Hollywoodization of the world’s media
marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended and keeps
maintaining its industry remarkably healthy. In 2001 South Korea became the
first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market back
from Hollywood. New York-based film magazine *Film Comment* proclaims that
South Korean cinema is “one of the greatest renaissances in global
filmmaking the world has ever seen” (2004). And in 2014 local films had a
62% market share in South Korea, the highest such figures in the world,
except America and India. In less than two decades, South Korea’s film
industry has blossomed from a small-scale curiosity into a vibrant business
mimicking the earlier transformation of Hong Kong’s film industry in the
process. Moreover, adding to this film industry success story, the
high-quality South Korean local product flowed outward to global film
markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, art
theatres, at major international film festivals, and new platforms like
Netflix and iTunes. Such acclaimed directors like Chan-wook Park, Bong
Joon-ho, Hong Sang-soo, Lee Chang-dong, and Kim Jiwoon have now become
household names in world cinema today. The goal of this introductory
lecture on the Korean film industry is to develop a broad understanding of
Korean cinema exploring their wide-ranging impact and asking how they
participate in the transnational production and circulation of culture,
ideology, modernity, politics, and tradition in both regional and
international contexts.

*Biography*

*Sangjoon Lee *is Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema at the Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University
in Singapore. Lee is the editor of *Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age
of Social Media* (University of Michigan Press, 2015) and is currently
editing *Rediscovering Korean Cinema* for University of Michigan Press
(forthcoming 2020). His writing has appeared in such journals as *Film
History*, *Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television*, *Journal of
Korean Studies*, *Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema*, and *Transnational
Cinemas*. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled *The
Asian Cinema Network: The Asian Film Festival and the Cultural Cold War in
Asia*.

For further information please contact:

*Dr. Mohita Roman*

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Korean Studies

School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics

Menzies Building, Rm W528, 20 Chancellors Walk

Monash University Clayton 3800 Australia

Email: mohita.roman at monash.edu Ph.: +61 3 99058391




















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Mohita Roman
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Korean Studies
School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Menzies Building, Rm W528, 20 Chancellors Walk
Monash University Clayton 3800 Australia
Email: mohita.roman at monash.edu Ph.: +61 3 99058391
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