2020-21 Ewha Online International Winter College Course Syllabus

General Introduction to Korea

Professor: Kyong-Mi Danyel Kwon E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 02-3277-6675 Dept.: Global Korean Studies, Scranton College

General Introduction to Korea provides a comprehensive overview of Korean culture and history vis-à-vis literary and visual media. The course examines some of the major literary and visual materials from the 20th century Korea(s) arranged by a wide range of topics such as modernism, Description: gender identity, colonial/post-colonialism, diaspora, and revolutionary aesthetics. Some thematic concepts such as culture, state, society, gender and national identity will be discussed within the context of Korea’s popular culture.

The course aims to provide a theoretical underpinning of Korean Studies in Korea and abroad Objective: through which students are encouraged to define their own understanding of the field as well as Korean culture at large.

All readings and films are on the course website as well as on the library reserve

Recommend Readings: (Highly recommended for those who would like to gain a comprehensive overview of the cultural Prerequisite:: and political transformations of Korea) • Carter J. Eckert et. el., Korea Old and New: A History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Korea Institute, 1990). • Peter H. Lee et. el., Sources of Korean Tradition, Vols. 1 & 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996 & 2000).

Contact Hours: by email or Credits 3 45 appt 1. [LIVE: 1/20 11am] Introduction: Contemporary Korean Culture: then and now 1/20(Wed) - Keith Pratt, Everlasting Flower: a history of Korea, London: Reaktion, 2006, 13-26. 2. The Beginning of Modern Korea - Keith Pratt, Everlasting Flower: a history of Korea, London: Reaktion, 1/21(Thu) 2006, 153-208. Week 1 - Michael E. Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: a short history, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, 8-35. 3. Recreated Past and Imagined Future - Keith Pratt, Everlasting Flower: a history of Korea, London: Reaktion, 2006, 209-240. 1/22(Fri) - Michael E. Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: a short history, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, 36-55. - FILM: Hanbando (Woo-seok Kang 2006, 147mns) 4. Korea Modern I Week 2 1/25(Mon) - Michael E. Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: a short history, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, 56-99.

- Todd Henry, “Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial , 1905-1919,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Aug., 2005): 639-675. - Jin-kyung Park, “Picturing Empire and Illness: Biomedicine, Venereal Disease and the Modern Girl in Korea under Japanese Colonial Rule,” Cultural Studies 28:1 (2014): 108-141. 5. Korea Modern II - Sang Mi Park. “The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Japanese Empire: Choe 1/26(Tue) Seung-hui’s U.S. Dance Tours and “New Asian Culture” in the 1930s and 1940s,” positions 14: 3 (Winter 2006): 597-632. - FILM: Choi Seunghee: the story of a dancer (Won Jongsun, 52 mns) 6. Two Koreas: North Korean culture and history I - Michael E. Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: a short history, Honolulu, HI: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2007, 146-166. 1/27(Wed) - FILM: Flower Girl (1972) - FILM: Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky 2015, 105 mns) - [Cartoon] Guy Delisle, : a journey in , Montreal: Canada: Drawn & Quarterly Books, 2003. 7. Two Koreas: North Korean culture and history II - Han Sorya, "Jackals," in Han Sorya and North , ed.&trans. by Brian Myers, NY: Cornell Univ East Asia Program (January 1994). 1/28(Thu) - Ung-bin Han, “Second Encounter,” Chosŏn Munhak, Pyongyang, 1998-1999. 1-15. - FILM: Camp 14: Total Control Zone (Marc Wiese 2012, 106mns) 8. [LIVE: 1/29 11am] North Korean Defector Up Close and Personal - Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: ordinary lives in North 1/29(Fri) Korea, New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010, 6-119 (chs 1-5). - Online Midterm Examination (1/29~1/31) 9. Two Koreas: South Korean culture and history - Michael E. Robinson, Chapters 6 & 8 in Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: 2/1(Mon) a short history, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, 121-145 & 167- 181. - FILM: Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong 1999, 130 mns) 10. Key Issues in Contemporary I : Ethnic Minorities - Grace Choe, “Chapter 3: Tracing the Disappearance of the Yanggongju,” in Haunting the Korean Diaspora: shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war, 2/2(Tue) Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 89-128. - Mary Lee, “Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family,” Korean Studies Vol. 32 (2008), 56-85. - FILM: Address Unknown (Ki-duk Kim 2001, 117mns) 11. Key Issues in Contemporary South Korea II : Sexual Minorities - Robert L. Cagle. “Taking the Plunge: Representing Queer Desire in Week 3 Contemporary South Korean Cinema,” in Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema, ed. Frances Gateward (Albany: 2/3(Wed) State Univ. of New York Press, 2007): 283-297. - Ungsan Kim. “Queer Korean cinema, national others, and making of queer space in stateless things,” Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema Vol. 9, No. 1 (2011), 1-19. - FILM: Bungee Jumping of Their Own (Kim Dae-Seung 2000, 101 mns) 12. Key Issues in Contemporary South Korea II : Sexual Minorities (continued) - Dongjin Seo. “Mapping the Vicissitudes of Homosexual identities in South Korea,” Journal of Homosexuality, Vol 40 (3), (2001), 65-78. - Jin-hyung Park. Chapter 11 in Asiapacifiqueer: rethinking genders and 2/4(Thu) sexualities, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2008, 197-217. - Basil Glynn & Kim Jeongmee. “Life is beautiful: gay representation, moral panics, and south Korean television drama beyond hallyu,” Quarterly review of film and video, 34 (2017), 333-347.

- FILM: Miracle on Jongno Street (Lee Hyuk-sang 2010, 109 mns) 13. Korean Diaspora - David Howell, “Ethnicity and Culture in Contemporary Japan,” Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), 171-190. 2/5(Fri) - FILM: Koryo Saram: the unreliable people (David Chung 2007, 60mns) - FILM: Our School (Myeong-joon Kim 2007, 131mns) 14. Seoul Beat: the history of Korean pop music - Pil Ho Kim & Hyunjoon Shin. “The Birth of ‘Rok’: Cultural Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Globalisation of Rock Music in South Korea, 1964-1975,” positions Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 2010): 199- 230. 2/8(Mon) - Roald Maliangkay. “Chapter 13: The Popularity of Individualism: Week 4 The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s,” in The Korean Popular Culture Reader eds. Kyung Hyun Kim and Youngmin Choe, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 296-313. - FILM: Go Go 70s (Choe Ho 2008, 118 mns) 15. [LIVE: 2/9 11am] Seoul Beat continued… 2/9(Tue) - And final exam review!

Assignments Midterm Final Attendance (online Participation Etc. Evaluation(%) discussion) 25 25 25 25 ※ Any student who misses 1/3 or more of the class hours will automatically fail the course.

※ The course will be graded on a P/F basis.