Spanish version Number 10 / August 2011
Activities
Congress, seminars and courses
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Scholarships, positions, exchanges and papers
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Suggested Readings
Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong. A Guidebook for the Latest Korean New Wave Anthony C.Y. Leong
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Korean Film Directors
IM Kwon-Taek y Park Chan-Wook
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News of the region
Floods leave 30,000 people homeless in North Korea View +

South Korea will host the Winter Olympics in 2018 View +

Natural Beauty View +

Korea will host the fifth summit of the G20 View +

Korea celebrates 66 th anniversary of National Liberation Day View +

Inauguration of the 6th World Culture Expo Gyeongju View +
Local News
Conference View +

Music View +

Movies View +
Editorial
In this newsletter we offer elements that, from films and cultural productions, can help us to understand South Korea in the process of globalization. The changes in the fields of culture and art from the pivotal moments in the history of Korea, gave place, in recent decades, to contemporary changes that were reflected in the policy of openness to the world through film, TV, animation and online games in general. Korea relates to the world, from a cultural system which projects itself... View + info
Analysis and Opinion
Korean Cinema In Ten Notes

Enrique Garcelán and Gloria Fernández (CineAsia)

Although most of Korean films arrived in our country at the beginning of the eighties, when kung fu films or martial arts films flooded double features in neighborhood cinemas, and Bruce Lee was present in hundreds of screens (some movies came from South Korea but with a Hong Kong wrapping), it is only very recently, less than a decade ago, that most of the Spanish-speaking audience heard about Korean movies, thanks to directors like Kim Ki-duk
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Poetry – Lee Chang-Dong's return to literature

Yael Tujsnaider

Premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2010 and presented in our country during BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema), Poetry is Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong's last masterpiece. As in his previous films, Lee Chang-Dong sets forth, in a harsh manner, the senselessness of life; he illustrates tragedy naturally, without dramatic effects or disagreeable surprises. Lee is interested in the stereotype of heroic characters; his film is one...
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Research compendium. Aims, approach and results achieved based on the analysis of territories and feminine nature in South Korean film fiction

By Paula Iadevito (IIGG-UBA-CONICET)

The starting point, the origin of the research¹ was the formulation of a general goal that established an intention and a direction for the work process: to interpret and comprehend the historical mutations and changes in the experiences of 'Korean women', and the way these changes intervened in shaping the subject, the identity and the idea of gender within the peninsular context...
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