KORE 570: Seminar in Korean Culture and Media

KORE 570-001: Monsters in Korean Media
(Spring 2027)

04:30 PM to 05:45 PM M

East Building - Hybrid

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Section Information for Spring 2027

This graduate seminar examines the monster, the specter, and the grotesque in Korean literature, cinema, webtoons, and streaming media as foundational sites of socio-political critique. Rather than treating horror as mere genre fiction, we approach the "monstrous" as a critical category that maps the traumatic terrain of Korean modernity, including Japanese colonialism, national division, the violent state engineering of compressed modernization, and the contemporary exhaustion of neoliberal platform capitalism.

This is a hybrid section with face-to-face meetings and asynchronous online coursework.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Equips students with advanced knowledge about Korean media culture by examining various practices across the mediascape and the transnational and global phenomena that result from them. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages. May be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Recommended Prerequisite: 400-level KORE course conducted in Korean
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean

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