A Microsoft Word document of the schedule is available for download here.

All events take place at the Doubletree Club Orange County Airport unless otherwise noted.

June 25, 2010


  • Opening (9:30AM-10:00AM): Welcoming Address by Kyung Hyun Kim (UCI)

  • Session 1 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Denationalization of Seoul in Inter-Asian Geopolitics (Dong Yeun Lee -- Korean National University of Arts)
      -- Respondent: Hyung Il Pai (UCSB)
  • Lunch Break (12:00PM-1:10PM)

  • Session 2 (1:10PM-3:10PM): Korean Pop Music and Censorship (Chang-Nam Kim --SungKongHoe University)
      -- Respondent: Donna Kwon (University of Kentucky)
  • Coffee Break (3:10PM-3:30PM)

  • Session 3 (3:30PM-5:30PM): Coloniality in Korean Modern Culture (Boduerae Kwon -- Dongguk University)
      -- Respondent: Young-chae Seo (Hanshin University)
  • Dinner (5:45PM-7:30PM)
      -- Held at UC Irvine (Humanities Gateway 1030)
  • Session 4 (7:30PM-9:00PM): Whatever Happened to the Old Alley?: Images of Deterritorialization in Korean Contemporary and Popular Arts (Hyun-suk Seo -- Yonse University)


    June 26, 2010


  • Morning Talk (9:00AM-9:20AM): Why Study Korean Popular Culture? (Youna Kim, American University of Paris)

  • Session 5 (9:20AM-10:20AM): Roundtable Discussion of Korean Popular Culture pedagogy in the U.S.
      -- Moderators: Youngmin Choe (USC); Ted Hughes, Nancy Abelmann, Kyeong-Hee Choi
  • Morning Break (10:20AM-10:30AM)

  • Session 6 (10:30AM-11:50AM): Graduate/Post-Grad Forum (A)
      -- John (Song Pae) Cho (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "From Analog to Digital: Korean Gay Men and the Internet"
      -- Regina Yung Lee (UCLA): "Coffee Prints: (con)Textualizing Online Interaction in English-language K-Drama Fandoms"
    -- Respondent: Youna Kim (American University of Paris)

  • Lunch Break (11:50PM-12:50PM)

  • Session 7 (12:50PM-2:10PM): Graduate/Post-Grad Forum (B)
      -- Sohl Lee (Univ. Rochester): "Mixrice: Blurring the Boundaries between Art, Popular Culture and Activism"
      -- Jenny Wang Medina (Columbia): "What A Way To Make A Livin’: Changing Perceptions of the Working Subject in Contemporary Korean Culture Production"
    -- Respondent: Namhee Lee (UCLA)

  • Session 8 (2:10PM-3:30PM): Graduate/Post-Grad Forum (C)
      -- Jee-Eun R. Song (UC Davis): "Building an Empire One Cup at a Time: Cultural Meaning and Power of Starbucks in Korea"
      -- Michelle Cho (UC Irvine): "Documentary Metafictions: On Generic Violence in Recent South Korean Cinema"
    -- Respondent: Youngmin Choe (USC)

  • Break (3:30PM-4:00PM)

  • Session 9 (4:00PM-5:30PM): New Directions in Korean Popular Culture Studies (Roundtable Discussion)
      -- Moderators: Kelly Jeong (UCR); Suk-Young Kim, Jin Kyung Lee, Jungsun Park
  • Dinner and Movie Screening (6:00PM-10:00PM)
      -- Held at Kyung Hyun Kim’s residence:

        23 Harvey Ct.
        Irvine, CA 92617
        (213) 399-9599

      -- Movies: My Worst Friends (Sun Namkoong, 2009, 39 min.) & Lost in the Mountains (Hong Sangsoo, 2009, 31 min.)