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Work in Progress Seminar

Star Wars vs Seopyeonje: Images of Science and Technology in South Korea

27th March 2014, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

Dr. Dong-Won Kim

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Why are the Star Wars movies not so popular in South Korea? Until the early 1990s Korean Movies were less popular than imported Hollywood movies. Seopyeonje (1993) was the first Koreans have gone to cinemas to see Korean movies but not the three Star Wars prequels. So are science and technology a big part of Korean culture? How are science and technology usually represented in South Korea? And there a link between popular culture and the “crisis in science and technology” in South Korea?

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in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).