Research Presentations

I gave a talk, "When your imagination becomes a reality: What do Korean and Japanese girls’ comics, K-pop idols, and Queen Yuna have in common?" virtually for the Pre-Conference: East Asian Media and the Politics of Nostalgia at the 2022 Global Fusion conference held at Temple University in Philadelphia, on October 14. This talk is based on my personal nostalgia, as well as my observations and reflections while teaching Korean media and pop culture class at North Park University in the spring 2022.

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I gave a talk about Korean pop culture at North Park University in Chicago. "Gangnam Style" is the world’s most watched video with 2.4 billion clicks on YouTube. Behind the funny video and Psy's global stardom is South Korea’s history of tragedy and hardship and the long-held sentiment of Han. In my talk, I claimed that Han is an experiential reality to contemporary Koreans, revisited and relived through the collective memory and national identity.

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