Center for Korean

Studies
University of California, Berkeley

Korean Film Workshop

Monday, June 23 and Tuesday, June 24 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
IEAS Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor

Note: Sunday, June 22 (6:00 p.m.): Pre-workshop dinner at Revival Bar & Kitchen located
at 2102 Shattuck Avenue (five minute walk from hotel)

Day 1 (Monday, June 23)


Introduction (9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.)
Moderator: Jinsoo An, UC Berkeley

Session I (10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.)
The Spaces of Cold War Korean Film Melodrama
Travis Workman (University of Minnesota): tworkman@umn.edu

Spatial Gestures: Toward the Critique of Violence in Postwar Korean Film Noir
Hyun Seon Park (Visiting Scholar, USC): hyunspar@usc.edu

How Steel is Trained: The Asian Corporeal in the Era of High-modern Heavy
Industry
Young-Jae Yi (Visiting Scholar, Princeton University): ghostrat@hanmail.net


Lunch (12:00 to 1:00 p.m.) In conference room


Session II (1:00 to 2:45 p.m.)
Seoul Flneur: Breathless and Caf Noir
Jinhee Choi (Kings College London, UK): jinhee.choi@kcl.ac.uk

Love and Hate Thy Neighbor: Spatiality in Hong Sang-soo and Lee Chang-dong
Kyung Hyun Kim (UC Irvine): kyunghk@uci.edu

The Microcosm in South Korean Cinema
Peter Paik (University of Wisconsin, but from Korea): pypaik@gmail.com


Break (3:00 pm to 4:00 pm)


Film Screening (4:00 to 6:00)
City: Hall ( , :, 2013)
Ms. Jeong, Jae-eun (Korea): jayzoo@naver.com

Dinner (7:00 p.m.)
Julias Restaurant at Berkeley City Club



Day 2 (Tuesday, June 24)


Session I (10:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.)
Manchurian Imagination in Korean Films (Provisional)
Wooseok Kang (USC): philkang004@gmail.com

The Chronotope of the North: From The Good, The Bad, The Weird to Dooman River
Hyon Joo Yoo (University of Vermont): hmurphre@uvm.edu

Genre's Spatial Imaginary: A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan Insaeng) and Rough Cut
(Yonghwanun Yonghwada)
Michelle Cho (McGill University, Canada): michelle.cho@mcgill.ca


Lunch (12:00 to 1:00 p.m.) In conference room


Session II (1:00 to 2:45 p.m.)
The Meaning of the Fall in the Cinema of Park Chan-Wook and Others: Politics of
Vertical Mobility in Select South Korean Genre Films
Kyu Hyun Kim (UC Davis): qhyunkim@hotmail.com

Into Spreadable Spaces: The Digital (After)Life of Korean Cinema
Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University): Hye.Chung@colostate.edu

General Discussion, (3:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.)
Blessings of Belatedness: Inter- or Trans-disciplinarity of Korean Film Studies
Kyeong-Hee Choi (University of Chicago): khchoikh@gmail.com


Dinner (6:00 p.m.)
Mandarin Garden (Five minute walk from conference room)




Our thanks to the Academy of Korean Studies for their Generous Support of this Workshop