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CFP: “GLOBAL CONTENT PROVIDER: KOREAN FILM AND TV DRAMA AS INDUSTRY AND ENTERTAINMENT”, 2022 SITUATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


“Global Content Provider: Korean Film and TV Drama as Industry and Entertainment”,

2022 Situations International Conference

21-22 October 2022, 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:


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



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



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



"Words 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. 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.

We will pay the hotel accommodation for those participants whose final papers we accept. 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@yonsei.ac.kr and addressed to the Managing Editor, Dr Rhee Suk Koo and the two Editors, Dr Terence Murphy and Dr Peter Paik.


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CFP: SPYING ON EAST ASIA: INTELLIGENCE AND SURVEILLANCE IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION.


Spying on East Asia: Intelligence and Surveillance in the Age of Information

October 31-November 1, 2020
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis


This two-day conference will focus on secret agents and hidden control during hot, cold, and information wars in East Asia throughout the twentieth century to the present. Competition over information formed an invisible yet vitally important battlefield that had paramount effects on the war front in the first half of the twentieth century. Newly invented media technologies, such as radio, telegram, and tape recording, were mobilized to gather, reproduce, and disseminate intelligence. Secret agents and spies crossed institutional, regional, and national boundaries, destabilizing senses of truth and trust. The prevalence of the espionage genre in East Asia reflects the heightened political tension that persisted throughout the cold war, and also contributes to contemporary imaginations of wartime. Today, new technologies of surveillance and information control have largely reshaped people’s social experience and sense of security, raising pressing questions about power, privacy, and identity.

Bringing together scholars from various disciplines, this conference presents a collective effort to unveil the secrecy and significance of information circulation and control in changing historical contexts. How did hidden forms of control impact the trajectory of social history as well as everyday life? How is the secret world of espionage represented in popular culture? In what ways do new media technologies shape social relations and the production of identity? Topics contributors may wish to consider include:
  • Spy novels, films and TV dramas
  • Wartime and Cold War espionage trainings and activities
  • Disguised identity and the issue of collaboration
  • Media technology (radio, telegram, recording devices, computer, facial recognition, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) in information gathering and circulation
  • Surveillance and control
  • Security and privacy
Related creative approaches and inquires are welcome.


We invite scholars and Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences to attend the conference, to be held on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, October 31-November 1, 2020. Please email an abstract of no more than 300 words to Dr. Yuqian Yan (yyuqian@wustl.edu) by May 15, 2020. Graduate students should also submit a short curriculum vita (1-2 pages) to receive full consideration. Successful applicants will be notified before June 1, 2020, and will be asked to submit a completed draft of their papers by October 10, 2020 for pre-circulation purposes.

Local accommodations including food and lodging will be covered by the conference. We regret that we are unable to cover faculty participant’s travel costs. Graduate students will be reimbursed up to $300 to cover travel expenses.


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Name: Dr. Yuqian Yan (East Asian Languages and Cultures. Washington University in St. Louis)

Contact Email: yyuqian@wustl.edu

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