"Cinema, North Korea, and Division of Nation"
September 22, 2019. 10AM-5PM
Venue: Lotte Cinema Paju
11th DMZ International Doc Film Festival Conference
"Cinema, North Korea, and Division of Nation"
September 22, 2019
Lotte Cinema Paju
Organizer: The Knowledge Coop www.good21.net
Co-organizer: Korean Journalist Association for Film
10:00-10:10 Opening / Shin Dong Kim ---------------------------------------------------- MC/ Chung-kang Kim
10:10-11:40 Session 1: Cinema, Cold War, and the Division System
Chair: Sangjoon Lee / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“From the Image of Spy-Puppet State to Brotherhood: The Depiction of South Korea and Foreign Images in North Korean Cinema during the 1970s and 1980s”
Gabor Sebo, PhD, Korea University
“The imagination of Cold War Asia in South and North Division Spy Korean film and Economic cooperation film and Korean Diaspora Documentary as its Re-appropriation”
Minhwa Ahn, Korea Natinal University of Arts, Korea
“Reincarnation of the “Girl”: The Mount Kŭmgang Girl and North Korean Musical Film”
Xiaoqian Song, PhD, Ewha Woman’s University
“Strange brothers: Depicted division and North Korea in South Korean Conflict films since the Korean War”
*Kyoung-Suk Sung, University of Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Bonn, Germany
11:40-12:20 Keynote presentation and discussion
Chair: Chung-kang Kim / Hanyang University, Korea
“Viewing and Imagining North Korea from Outside”
Hyang Jin Lee, Rikkyo University, Japan
12:30-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 Session 2: North Korea and the Politics of Cinematic Representation
Chair: Jihoon Kim / Chung-Ang University, Korea
“Escaping the North, Women, and Trans/national Identity: Beautiful Days”
Mi Young Park, PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, US
“Cinematic depictions of North Korea and North Koreans on the South Korean screens”
Nemo Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
“Rebirth of the Symbolism of North Korea”
Jung Eun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
“Towards a Visual Anthropology of North Korea: South Korean, North Korean, and External Filmic Representations”
*Bonnie Tilland, Yonsei University, Korea
2:30-4:00 Session 3: Division System in the Global Context
Chair: KwangWoo Noh / Korea University, Korea
“From the Mocking DPRK Mockumentary to the Kim Jong Un-Trump Reality Show”
Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada
“Film and National Division in South Korea and Bangladesh: Cinematic Historiography of War and Partition in Inter-Asian Frame”
Zakir Hossain Raju, Independent University, Bangladesh
“The Juche Aesthetics: A Brazilian perspective of the North Korean Film ‘Pulgasari’”
Jeferson Martins da Silva Gonçalves, Brazil
“The Paradoxical Divide: Soft Power and the Love Boat: Taiwan documentary film”
Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University, US
“Asian American Film Media Activism; Film festival as crossed community place”
Yuri Takahashi, Doshisha University, Japan
4:00-4:50 Session 4: DMZ as a Space of Tourist Gaze
Chair: Molly Hyojung Kim / University of Suwon, Korea
“Provocation or Peace Matter? Ups and Downs of the DMZ Tours on North and South Korea Among the Hong Kong Tourists”
Steve Chung Lok-wai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“The Politics of Transborder Kinship: DMZ Tourism and the Spectacle of Reunification”
Claire Chun, UC Berkeley, US
4:50-5:00 Closing and Announcement
5:00-5:30 Moving to the dinner venue
5:30-6:30 Roundtable discussion
6:30-9:00 Dinner with less formal discussion and networking
*Spotlight presentations
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Shin Dong Kim, Chair / Hallym University & The Knowledge Coop
Chung-kang Kim / Hanyang University, Korea
Jihoon Kim / Chung-Ang University, Korea
KwangWoo Noh / Korea University, Korea
Molly Hyojung Kim / University of Suwon, Korea
Sang Joon Lee / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shin Sung Kim / Korean Journalist Association for Film
Yeo Jeong Choi / DMZ Docs, Korea
Program Assistant: Tracy Lorena Campos Lopez tracy.camp20@gmail.com
11th DMZ International Doc Film Festival Conference
"Cinema, North Korea, and Division of Nation"
September 22, 2019
Lotte Cinema Paju
Organizer: The Knowledge Coop www.good21.net
Co-organizer: Korean Journalist Association for Film
10:00-10:10 Opening / Shin Dong Kim ---------------------------------------------------- MC/ Chung-kang Kim
10:10-11:40 Session 1: Cinema, Cold War, and the Division System
Chair: Sangjoon Lee / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“From the Image of Spy-Puppet State to Brotherhood: The Depiction of South Korea and Foreign Images in North Korean Cinema during the 1970s and 1980s”
Gabor Sebo, PhD, Korea University
“The imagination of Cold War Asia in South and North Division Spy Korean film and Economic cooperation film and Korean Diaspora Documentary as its Re-appropriation”
Minhwa Ahn, Korea Natinal University of Arts, Korea
“Reincarnation of the “Girl”: The Mount Kŭmgang Girl and North Korean Musical Film”
Xiaoqian Song, PhD, Ewha Woman’s University
“Strange brothers: Depicted division and North Korea in South Korean Conflict films since the Korean War”
*Kyoung-Suk Sung, University of Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Bonn, Germany
11:40-12:20 Keynote presentation and discussion
Chair: Chung-kang Kim / Hanyang University, Korea
“Viewing and Imagining North Korea from Outside”
Hyang Jin Lee, Rikkyo University, Japan
12:30-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 Session 2: North Korea and the Politics of Cinematic Representation
Chair: Jihoon Kim / Chung-Ang University, Korea
“Escaping the North, Women, and Trans/national Identity: Beautiful Days”
Mi Young Park, PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, US
“Cinematic depictions of North Korea and North Koreans on the South Korean screens”
Nemo Kim, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
“Rebirth of the Symbolism of North Korea”
Jung Eun Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
“Towards a Visual Anthropology of North Korea: South Korean, North Korean, and External Filmic Representations”
*Bonnie Tilland, Yonsei University, Korea
2:30-4:00 Session 3: Division System in the Global Context
Chair: KwangWoo Noh / Korea University, Korea
“From the Mocking DPRK Mockumentary to the Kim Jong Un-Trump Reality Show”
Greg Elmer, Ryerson University, Canada
“Film and National Division in South Korea and Bangladesh: Cinematic Historiography of War and Partition in Inter-Asian Frame”
Zakir Hossain Raju, Independent University, Bangladesh
“The Juche Aesthetics: A Brazilian perspective of the North Korean Film ‘Pulgasari’”
Jeferson Martins da Silva Gonçalves, Brazil
“The Paradoxical Divide: Soft Power and the Love Boat: Taiwan documentary film”
Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University, US
“Asian American Film Media Activism; Film festival as crossed community place”
Yuri Takahashi, Doshisha University, Japan
4:00-4:50 Session 4: DMZ as a Space of Tourist Gaze
Chair: Molly Hyojung Kim / University of Suwon, Korea
“Provocation or Peace Matter? Ups and Downs of the DMZ Tours on North and South Korea Among the Hong Kong Tourists”
Steve Chung Lok-wai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“The Politics of Transborder Kinship: DMZ Tourism and the Spectacle of Reunification”
Claire Chun, UC Berkeley, US
4:50-5:00 Closing and Announcement
5:00-5:30 Moving to the dinner venue
5:30-6:30 Roundtable discussion
6:30-9:00 Dinner with less formal discussion and networking
*Spotlight presentations
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Shin Dong Kim, Chair / Hallym University & The Knowledge Coop
Chung-kang Kim / Hanyang University, Korea
Jihoon Kim / Chung-Ang University, Korea
KwangWoo Noh / Korea University, Korea
Molly Hyojung Kim / University of Suwon, Korea
Sang Joon Lee / Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shin Sung Kim / Korean Journalist Association for Film
Yeo Jeong Choi / DMZ Docs, Korea
Program Assistant: Tracy Lorena Campos Lopez tracy.camp20@gmail.com