Genre, Gender, and Language in Korean Film & Drama

K- Drama Literary Reading with Matt Salesses in Conversation with Kelly Rich
Introduction by Margaret Rhee
Opening Remarks by Senior Associate Vice Provost John Wood

Dayeon Jung, Seoul National University
Miss, How Could Such an Innocent… You Must Be a Natural: Three Sex Scenes in The Handmaiden and Erotic Cinema in South Korea

Jeongon Choi, University of Oregon
Tune the Korean Television to Working Girls: Revisiting Kim Su- hyŏn’ s Melodramas on Television

Jeferson Martins, Hanyang University
The Invisible Korean Queer Films of Park Chung- hee' s Era: Between Censorship, Resistance and Dictatorship

Opening Remarks by UB Vice Provost for International Education Nojin Kwak

Molly Hyo Kim, Hanyang University, “ Korean Cinema and The Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon- rye”

Q& A with Margaret Rhee and Ekrem Serdar

Stephen J . Epstein, Victoria University (Wellington)
North Korea and Netflix: Gender, Genre and Language

Gongju Cha, Claremont Graduate University
Creating A Third Space: Transnational Korean Television Shows in the Digital Streaming Era ( A Critical Reading of Sweet Home and Squid Game)

Yeojin Kim, Binghamton University
Media Identity in the Era of Pandemic: K- drama on Netflix

Amanda Wright, Ewha Womens University [virtual]
North Korean Defectors' in South Korean Media: Defectors' Thoughts on their Misrepresentation

Michael Ormsbee, University of Rochester
My Heart and My Blood are in this Record: Contesting History in Hanjungrok, The Throne, and Secret Door

Jing Peng, Hong Kong University
Shaping South Korea and i ts Ties with Hong Kong in Film Co- productions during Height of Cold War, 1950 s- 1970 s

Andy Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Korea’ s Film Movement in the 1980 s and I ts Limited Praxis

Tanushri Banerjee [virtual]
The Art of Doing Nothing: A Study of " Healing" Genre in Korean Popular Culture

Moderated by Heum- mun Chung, Korea Nazarene University

Moderated by Robert Cagle, University of I l l inois

David Oh, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Co- Production and the Ambivalent Korean Fantasy Romance in the " Ultimate Oppa"

Gunjan Gupta, Christ University (Bangalore) [virtual]
Representing Idyllic Country l i fe in select Korean romance dramas: An Escape or Reality?

Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia
Gender, Genre, Genesis: Ideals of Masculinities and Society in Recent Korean Dramas

Jamie Hartford, University of Hawaii
Romanticization of Female Doctors’ Role in Medical Dramas: An Analysis of Dr. Romantic

Joseph Jeon, University at California, Irvine
Lines Left to Cross: Deglobalization and the Domestic Western in Bong Joon- ho’ s Parasite

Moderated by UB Vice Provost for International Education Nojin Kwak

Narae Lee, Pratt Institute
Escaping Western Gaze in Understanding Korean Queer Film - Park Chan Wook’ s " The Handmaiden"

Christina Klein, Boston College
Restoring the History of Korea’ s Female Directors: Shin Su- won’ s " Hommage" ( 2021 )

Nilesh Kumar, Independent Director [virtual]
Anal Terror: Queering South Korean Heteronormative Patriarchal Confucianism through Gay Sex

Oriana Virone, Universite Libre de Bruxelles [virtual]
No Catfight but Fistfight: Lee J i - won’ s Miss Baek’ s Representation of Female- to- Female Physical Violence

Moderated by Stephanie Choi, University at Buffalo

Gui Hwan Lee, Stony Brook University
Music as Decolonizing Agency in Bong Joon Ho’ s Urban- Fantasy Films: Case Studies from Host (2006) and Parasite (2019)

Nemo Kim, Independent Journalist
Creating " the 1 - inch- tall barrier": Politics in South Korean Cinema

Franchesca Ulloa, Ohio State University
Creating “ The 1 - inch- Tall Barrier”: Politics of Subtitling in South Korean Cinema Calligraphy of Aegyo: Captioning Culture in Korean Television Entertainment

Nam Lee, Chapman University
The Emergence of Science Fiction in South Korean Cinema: From Bong Joon Ho’ s The Host (2006) to Space Sweepers ( 2021 ) and Beyond

Moderated by Donte Mc Fadden, University at Buffalo

UB Asia Research Institute; Academy of Korean Studies; Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center; Departments of Media Study, English, Global Gender & Sexuality Studies, Art, and Linguistics; Asian Studies Program; Global Film studies Minor Program; Gender Institute