Reinterpreting Revenge: Authorship, Excess and the Critical Reception of Spike Lee’s Oldboy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Martin
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Initial Release ◽  
International Distribution ◽  
Transnational Film ◽  
The Way

Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) achieved only moderate success on its initial release in South Korea, but upon finding international distribution it attained much greater notoriety, winning a major prize at Cannes and attracting an unusually passionate and positive critical consensus. This chapter examines Spike Lee’s 2013 transnational film remake in terms of its critical reception, and the way in which the ‘reinterpretation’ was framed by its director in press interviews and public discourse. The chapter analyses how Lee attempted to escape the negative connotations of the ‘remake’ and brand his film as another entry in his own auteurist canon, despite the sceptical response from critics. This chapter further analyses the reception of the film in terms of the ways critics address the spectacle of violence, notions of taste, and the assumed cultural differences between American and South Korean audiences. Lee’s Oldboy thus offers the opportunity not only to examine the transformation of material from one director to another, but to interrogate broader debates over the intersection of the auteur as symbol/brand and the imagined (lack of) creative freedom afforded directors of remakes.

South Korea Film-Induced Tourism

2022 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Mazni Saad ◽  
Nor Azilah Husin ◽  
Nur Zafirah Ramlee
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
The South ◽  
High Quality ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Repeat Visit ◽  
International Distribution

This study surveyed 150 Malaysian tourists regarding the South Korean drama (K-drama) factors that drew them back to South Korea. The analyses revealed that K-drama was highly successful in enticing the young generation and discovered a clear scenario for Malaysians' response for a repeat visit. The results show that collaboration for the development of heritage tourism should be linked to the national identity and replicated through dramas similar to K-dramas. Universities should work closely with other stakeholders to produce high-quality films for international distribution.

scholarly journals COMBINING MULTIPLE DISINFORMATION COUNTERMEASURES TO REGULATE ELECTION DISRUPTIONS: THE SOUTH KOREAN CASE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soyun Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Pros And Cons

Disinformation spread through social media has been widely detected around the world in recent years. Researchers, the press, and the public alike have expressed strong concerns about disinformation influencing public discourse and elections, perceiving it as a direct threat to democracy. Democratic countries once reluctant to restrict freedom of speech are now actively examining countermeasures to disinformation. Such measures could be divided into four categories: Regulating platforms, criminalization of offenders, governmental monitoring, and relying on civil society. The existing literature so far has focused more on examining the pros and cons of individual policy directions rather than providing an overview of the entire dynamics when multiples measures are combined in practice. It is due to most countries still being at their infancy discussing and inventing a disinformation regulation suitable for their legal freedom of speech protection structure. South Korea is unique in that it has operated a system dealing with disinformation for over a decade now, and in that it has a system specifically dedicated to election protection combining three of the four measures introduced above. Through scrutinizing both the legal framework and execution practices of the multiple disinformation countermeasures in South Korea, this research expands the existing literature by offering insights on how combining measures could result in unforeseen discounts of freedom of speech.

scholarly journals Culture and paralinguistic features ~!^^:-): East meets West in a virtual exchange between South Korea and England

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (SI-IVEC2019) ◽  
pp. 49-67
Author(s):  
Michelle Wylie
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Digital Discourse

This paper investigates whether cultural differences are apparent in the paralinguistic features used by culturally diverse interactants online. Paralinguistic features are used pervasively in digital discourse (Herring & Androutsopoulos, 2015), therefore they play a pivotal role in online communication skills. Paralinguistic features such as the innovative use of punctuation and typographical features as well as emoticons and emojis are used to add nuance, emotional tone, and to manage discourse in online communication. However, the effectiveness of these paralinguistic features is dependent upon a shared understanding of their functions. This study seeks to explore any potential cultural manifestations in the use of paralinguistic features during a semester-long virtual exchange between 21 South Korean students and 25 students studying at a university in England. The dataset of 20,379 words generated during the virtual exchange was examined for cultural manifestations in paralinguistic features. As this study examines potential cultural manifestations online, it adheres to a culturally relativist perspective, therefore an inductive approach to the analysis of the data was taken. The analysis of the data revealed culturally specific paralinguistic features with the emergence of a feature that, to the best of my knowledge, has not been recorded in previous virtual exchange research.

scholarly journals South Korea’s COVID-19 Infection Status: From the Perspective of Reconfirmation after Complete Recovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1073-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Jung Kang ◽  
Hyunjoo Joo
Keyword(s):  
Disease Prevention ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Complete Recovery ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Infection Status ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Prevention Policies ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Way

COVID-19 started to occur in South Korea by an inflow of the virus from abroad, when a traveller from Wuhan, China, was first confirmed on January 19th, 2020. Although South Korea reduced the number of newly confirmed cases and is on the way to stabilizing the situation with its disease prevention policies, problems remain. The main issue is the reconfirmation of the virus after recovery. South Korean experts believe the reconfirmed cases are caused by reactivation of the virus inside the patients’ body, rather than by virus reinfection after recovery. When considering reconfirmed COVID-19 cases, it is important to keep social distancing even after treating the infection. Despite no cases of reconfirmed patients infecting others having been reported yet, re-examination of patients after recovery is thought to be pivotal to prevent reactivation.

On Cultural Differences in Decisions on Pay Allocation: Comparison of Students in Virginia and South Korea

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 562-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Tansky ◽  
Marion M. White ◽  
Kibok Baik
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The South ◽  
Korean Students ◽  
South Korean ◽  
South Korean Students

This study compared reward allocations between a group of 168 students from Virginia and 301 students from South Korea. Analysis indicated that the students in Virginia preferred to allocate rewards based on relative contributions (equity) and that the South Korean students tended to allocate rewards more equally.

Elusive Belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Projected Image ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Everyday Lives

With the unprecedented number of foreign-born population, South Korea has tried to reinvent itself as a multicultural society, but the intense multiculturalism efforts have focused exclusively on marriage immigrants. At the advent and height of South Korea’s eschewed multiculturalism, Elusive Belonging takes the readers to everyday lives of marriage immigrants in rural Korea where the projected image of a developed Korea which lured marriage immigrants and the gloomy reality of rural lives clashed. The intimate ethnographic account pays attention to emotional entanglements among Filipina wives, South Korean husbands, in-laws, and multicultural agents, with particular focus on such emotions as love, intimacy, anxiety, gratitude, and derision, which shape marriage immigrants’ fragmented citizenship and elusive sense of belonging to their new country. This investigation of the politics of belonging illuminates how marriage immigrants explore to mold a new identity in their new home, Korea.

The Emergence of Business Groups: Israel and South Korea Compared

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Maman
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Korean State

This paper examines the emergence of business groups in Israel and South Korea. The paper questions how, in very different institutional contexts, similar economic organizations emerged. In contrast to the political, cultural and market perspectives, the comparative institutional analysis adopted in this research suggests that one factor alone could not explain the emergence of business groups. In Israel and South Korea, business groups emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, and there are common factors underlying their formation: state-society relations, the roles and beliefs of the elites, and the relative absence of multinational corporations in the economy. To a large extent, the chaebol are the result of an intended creation of the South Korean state, whereas the Israeli business groups are the outcome of state policies in the economic realm. In both countries, the state elite held a developmental ideology, did not rely on market forces for economic development, and had a desire for greater economic and military self-sufficiency. In addition, both states were recipients of large grants and loans from other countries, which made them less dependent on direct foreign investments. As a result, the emerging groups were protected from the intense competition of multinational corporations.

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