[KS] Have you watched "Crash Landing on You"? MUKSRH's next seminar is about K-drama!

[Soyeon Kim]

Dear Korean Studies members

Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub is proud to present our next
talk by *Dr. Jiyoon An *(Nanyang University, Singapore) next *Friday 19th
August at 12 pm (AEST).*

Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) Presents:

Forthcoming events 2022

Seminar 5  The Crash Landing of Crash Landing on You: Amalgamating Korean
Cinema’s Blockbuster Tendencies with Television

*Speaker: Dr. Ji-yoon An (Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information, Singapore.)*

*Date: 19th August Friday, 12 pm (AEST)*

Venue: Zoom

Register here : *https://forms.gle/XSVcDpNP23ECrzBg8
<https://forms.gle/XSVcDpNP23ECrzBg8>*
*Abstract: *
K-drama has enjoyed unprecedented global recognition in recent years. With
the global success of Netflix’s shows such as Squid Game (2021), Hellbound
(2021), and Sweet Home (2020), many scholars and journalists alike have
commented on how K-drama is moving away from its prototypical sub-genre,
the “Cinderella” story (The Economic Times). During its decades of success
across Asia since the first hallyu wave in the 90s, the definitive genre of
K-drama has indeed been the romance “rom-com” genre, with its customary
Cinderella arc between one poor and one rich lover. However, with global
streaming platforms joining the Korean broadcasting landscape since 2016,
it is certainly true that the kinds of shows being produced have
diversified. For example, a political period horror-thriller featuring
zombies, like Kingdom (2019), would not have found a spot on a domestic
outlet. These global platforms have influenced not only the genres being
produced, but the scale, budget, and cinematic style of their productions.

Such diversification has sparked questions about the future of K-drama. Has
K-drama finally moved on from its romances and their defining
characteristics, such as accidental “skinship” moments, intertwined
“meant-to-be” back stories, and its cliff-hanger ending scenes? However,
such an observation may be hasty when considering that “conventional”
K-dramas have not been absent. One such example would be Crash Landing on
You (2019-20). Although not as record-breaking as Squid Game, it too
garnered a huge support from both within and outside Korea. Through an
analysis of Crash Landing, this paper will reveal how the conventional
K-rom-com has been upgrading its characteristics to suit the post-feminist
generation. Moreover, I argue that it has incorporated both narrative and
aesthetic tendencies of the Korean blockbuster film in an attempt to expand
and develop the K-drama for the global era. Much like the changes underwent
by the Korean film industry at the turn of the millennium, Crash Landing
utilizes Hollywood-style “spectacle” with a Korean “specialness” to
“glocalise” K-drama (Jinhee Choi 2010, Yecies and Shim 2016).

*Bio:*

Ji-yoon An is currently a Korea Foundation Visiting Assistant Professor in
Korean Studies at Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of
Communication and Information, Singapore. An received her Ph.D. in East
Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK, where her doctorate
dissertation examined family representations in contemporary Korean cinema.
Prior to her current position at NTU, An was a Visiting Assistant Professor
in Korean Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany, for three years.
During this time, she was also invited as Acting Professor in Korean Social
Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, for one year.

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Feel free to contact me on *soyeon.kim at monash.edu <soyeon.kim at monash.edu>*
if you have any questions about the talk.
Looking forward to seeing you at the seminar.

Kind regards,

*Soyeon Kim*

PhD candidate/ Teaching associate
Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) research assistant
School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Monash University
Clayton, Victoria, 3800
Australia

Email: Soyeon.Kim at monash.edu
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