[KS] [CFP] 2022 Situations International Conference "Global Content Provider: Korean Film and TV Drama as Industry and Entertainment"

[Sunghee Pak]

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*Call for Papers: 2022 Situations International Conference*



*Global Content Provider:*

*Korean Film and TV Drama as Industry and Entertainment*

*21-22 October 2022*

*Grand Hyatt Jeju, South Korea*



Right now, a lot of eyes are focused on Korea. In 2020, Bong Joon-ho’s
*Parasite* became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture
at the Academy Awards. Soon after, its director called for film audiences
to overcome the “one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles.” Two years later,
Hwang Dong-hyuk’s *Squid Game* (2021) became the top Netflix show in 90
countries, garnering over 111 million fans. Although these two massive hits
might appear to have come out of the blue, the ascent of Korean drama to
worldwide acclaim did not happen overnight. For decades, televisual
K-dramas have been popular in major sites in Asia, ranging from Japan to
Saudi Arabia; since the end of the 1990s, Korean films become featured more
regularly at some of the major international film festivals. Korean films
that won prizes at Cannes and Venice, including Park Chan-wook’s *Oldboy*
(2003), Lee Chang-dong’s *Secret* *Sunshine* (2007) and Kim Ki-duk’s *Piéta*
(2012) not only won over cinephiles but worked in tandem with popular
dramas like Lee Byung-hoon’s *Daejanggeum* (2003) to spark interest in
Korean culture as a whole.



Against the backdrop of the critical success and popular acclaim of Korean
films and drama, this interdisciplinary conference invites papers that
explore the range of themes and topics connected to the South Korean film
and TV industry. We are interested in papers that explore both the
infrastructure of the Korean entertainment industry and in the Korean
dramatic forms dependent on screenplay and telescript. The following topics
are listed as mere suggestions; in practice, we welcome a full range of
papers, including papers that offer perspectives that differ, and even
differ sharply, from the dominant liberal or progressive consensus in
cultural studies:





*Invited Speakers*:



*Dr. Suk-Young Kim (UCLA)*

"To Play or Not to Play:  Gamers as Speculative Critics in Recent Korean
Netflix Shows"



*Dr. Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)*

 “Beyond Anti-Communism and National Propaganda: Reevaluating South Korea’s
State Film Censorship of the Cold War Era”



*Dr. Jinhee Choi (King’s College London)*

“Who to Save?  Moral Dilemma and Uncertainty in Korean Contemporary
Horror, *The
Priests* (2015), *The Cursed* (2020) and *Hellbound* (2021)”



*Dr. Steve Choe (San Francisco State University)*

"Worlds of Sense and Memory in the K-Drama”



*Possible Topics:*



·      The Korean Film Festival: BIFF and its Others

·      Streaming Services in Korea: Netflix and its Others

·      Melodrama and Other Genres in K-Drama

·      The Art of Translation: K-Drama and Global Content Provision

·      Alternative Histories in Korean TV and Film

·      Sexuality and its Discontents in K-Drama

·      Traditional Femininity and Independent Women in K-Drama

·      Under Siege: Men, Masculinity and Masculinist Concerns in K-Drama

·      National Ethnocentric Interests and Global Migrant Agendas

·      LGBTQ Korean Films/Dramas

·      Image versus Reality in K-Cinema

·      Depictions of Religion in Korean Popular Culture

·      Virtual History and Speculative Futures of the Korean Peninsula

·      Feminism and the “Me Too” Movement in Korean Culture

·      *Ilbe*, the Alt-right, and Beyond

·      Asian Values on Screen: Liberalism and Tradition, Progressivism and
Religion

·      Screen Translation of Korean Films/Dramas/Webtoons



Early inquiries with 200-word abstracts are appreciated. By *20 August 2022*,
we would invite you to submit your 4,000-word Chicago-format conference
presentation with its abstract and keywords (the acceptance of the
presentation will be decided based on the 4,000-word paper). Each invited
participant will then be expected to turn his or her conference
presentation into a finished 6,000-word paper for possible inclusion in a
future issue of the SCOPUS-indexed journal, *Situations: Cultural Studies
in the Asian Context*.



Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.), using
only endnotes. For further details about the citation protocols, refer to
our journal website: http://situations.yonsei.ac.kr/sub03/sub01.php.



*Notes:*

·      We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose
final papers we accept.
- Venue: Grand Hyatt Jeju (
https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/south-korea/grand-hyatt-jeju/cjugh)
The presenters will be invited to share a twin bedroom with another
participant.



·      There are no registration fees.



·      *Should the coronavirus situation remain critical, we will consider
changing the conference format to a hybrid or virtual one. *



·      *All correspondence should be sent to **situations at yonsei.ac.kr*
<situations at yonsei.ac.kr>* and addressed to the Managing Editor, Dr. Rhee
Suk Koo and the two Editors, Dr. Terence Murphy and Dr. Peter Paik.*



CFP Categories: *Korean film, Korean TV drama, Korean studies, film
studies, cultural studies, gender studies, Asian film, Asian studies*
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