Write about Korean Popular Culture such as, what their culture is like, pop culture, popular music groups such as KPOP etc. famous movies & films. Please compare Korean Culture with American and Hawaii Culture. And if possible, please use the readings or books as references that are provided in the uploads. The titles and links is included on the uploads that’s included in the messages below. There are more clear instructions on each upload included below. Thank you.
WEEK 10: 3/22-24
Korean Popular Culture: Overview
Reading: Kim and Choe (K&C), Introduction, “Indexing Korean Popular Culture”
WEEK 11: 3/29-31
Korea: The Relationship between Han and Hallyu
Reading: K&C, Ch. 2, “Fisticuffs, High Kicks, and Colonial History: The Ambivalence of Modern Korean Identity in Postwar Narrative Comics”; Ch. 3., “It All Started with a Bang: The Role of PC Bangs in South Korea’s Cybercultures”
WEEK 12: 4/5-7
Korea: Music: National Identity and the Paradoxes of Globalization
Reading: K&C, Ch. 11, “Young Musical Love of the 1930s”; Ch. 14, “Girls’ Generation?”
WEEK 13: 4/12-14
Korea: TV Dramas and Popular Film: Protection and Exposure
Reading: K&C, Ch. 5, “Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures in the Korean 1950s”; Ch. 4, “As Seen on the Internet: The Recap as Translation in English-Language K-Drama Fandoms”
WEEK 14: 4/19-21
Korean Pop Culture Summary and Catch-up
WEEK 15: 4/26-28
Preparation for Essay #2
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