AEMS News and Reviews: Summer 2007 (Issue #26)

Lee, Tanya S.

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Title

AEMS News and Reviews: Summer 2007 (Issue #26)

Author(s)

Lee, Tanya S.

Contributor(s)

• Park, Jung-Sun
• Moon, Seungsook
• Park , Hyunju
• Park , Chan E.
• Cagle, Robert
• Jong-bin, Yoon
• Spies , Alwyn

Issue Date

2007-06-01

Keyword(s)

AEMS News and Reviews

Date of Ingest

2025-07-29T16:13:37-05:00

Geographic Coverage

• South Korea
• North Korea
• United States
• China
• Taiwan
• Japan
• Canada
• Europe
• South America

Abstract

For the first time in several years, we are exploring a single theme with an issue of the AEMS newsletter, building off of our successful South Korean Film Festival last September. The fourth annual Asian Film Festival, hosted by the University of Illinois’s Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and AEMS, brought together Korea scholars from around the country, the local Korea studies community, and the local ethnic Korean community to view, celebrate, and discuss five recent feature films from Korea. For more information about the film festival, please see our website: www.aems.uiuc.edu/events/filmfestival. South Korean cinema has been experiencing a renaissance in the last ten years or so, alongside Korean pop culture in general, and Jung Sun Park provides us with a helpful introduction to this phenomenon, known as hallyu, or “Korean wave.” The three films reviewed in this issue were all screened at our film festival. We were privileged to host Yoon Jongbin, the director of The Unforgiven, as our honored guest at this event, and Robert Cagle has provided us with an excerpt of an interview with him. Also, on our website, you can read Daniel Kim’s report on using The Unforgiven in his undergraduate class on Korean film (www.aems.uiuc.edu/publications/notes/notes.html). Two of the other films, both suitable for younger audiences, are reviewed in this issue. Hyunju Park, who presented at our teacher’s workshop, provides a critique of the comedy Please Teach Me English, while Chan E. Park, an expert on Korean folklore, provides an analysis of the animated feature Empress Chung. It is unfortunate and unforeseen that the latter film is not yet available on DVD; if you would like to be notified when it becomes available, please drop us a line. We are currently planning our next Asian Film Festival, this time focusing on Southeast Asian popular productions. This issue also features the second installment of our “Teaching and Technology” column. Alwyn Spies has allowed us to witness a teaching experiment in progress, warts and all, and in this segment reflects on what worked and what didn’t. I am eagerly in search of more writers for this column; if you or someone you know is engaged in a new way to use technology in the Asian studies classroom, I would love to hear about it!

Publisher

Asian Educational Media Service

Series/Report Name or Number

Issue #26

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

newsletter

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

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