[KS] Screening of "Calling Australia!" (1943c) at Yonsei Mirae Campus

[Han Sang KIM]

Korean Premiere of *Calling Australia!* (1943c, Hŏ Yŏng) at Yonsei Mirae
Campus


Yonsei University’s Institute for the Study of Korean Modernity will host
the Korean premiere of *Calling Australia! *(c1943) and its two related
films with the cooperation of Han Sang Kim, Assistant Professor of
Sociology at Ajou University, who discovered the films from the National
Film & Sound Archive of Australia. Directed by Hŏ Yŏng (1908-52), also
known as Hinatsu Eitaro or Dr. Huyung, *Calling Australia!* is a notorious
propaganda film that manipulated the life of Australian prisoners of war in
Java, Indonesia under the Imperial Japanese Army’s control, to persuade
Australia into joining the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. As a
film made by an ethnic Korean filmmaker who was affiliated with the
Imperial Japanese Army, starring Australian, British, and Dutch white
prisoners, what significance does the geographical and historical
positionality of this film hold in the historiography of Korean cinema?
What can we interpret from the life of Hŏ Yŏng who eagerly wanted to become
Japanese and, after the fall of the Japanese Empire, then became a sincere
supporter of Indonesia’s independence movement? This screening will be an
opportunity to take the first step to answer these questions. Almost all
dialogues in English with Korean subtitles (Some Japanese dialogues with
both Korean and English subtitles).


Day 1: Sunday, October 27, Yonsei University Mirae Campus, Cheongsong Hall
152

13:30 *Calling Australia! P.O.W. Presentation: An Australian Message*  (c1943,
32min) + *Nippon Presents* (1945, 37min)

15:50 *Prisoners of Propaganda* (1987, 59min)


Day 2: Monday, October 28, Yonsei University Mirae Campus, Cheongsong Hall
569

14:00 *Prisoners of Propaganda* (1987, 59min) + *Calling Australia! P.O.W.
Presentation: An Australian Message*  (c1943, 32min) + *Nippon Presents* (1945,
37min)


For further details, contact the Institute for the Study of Korean
Modernity at ysmkhk at yonsei.ac.kr

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-- 
Han Sang KIM, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ajou University
206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu,
Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 16499 South Korea
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