Oriental Languages and Cultures

The exam focuses on Knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 1) The course provides knowledge of methodological and critical-problematic aspects of South Korean popular culture studies, showing research fields on the Korean Wave through interdisciplinary perspectives: cultural studies, soft power, cultural economy, international relations. Applying knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 2) The course develops the ability to connect the Korean Wave with other disciplinary areas: history (postwar context, relations with China and Japan), economics (creative industries), politics (cultural diplomacy), sociology (fandom, globalization), media studies. Transversal competencies (Descriptors 3-5) Students develop: • Autonomy of judgment: critical evaluation of opportunities and challenges of South Korean soft power • Communication skills: appropriate use of specialized language of cultural studies • Learning skills: research methodologies applicable to other transnational cultural phenomena

To be enrolled in a master's degree in Oriental Languages and Civilization, LM-36 who will choose to follow the Korean curriculum.

Highly recommended frequency in presence.

a. The course is examined on the basis of a written take-home exam. If special reasons exist, such as formal errors, lack of understanding, minor misunderstandings, minor errors or inaccuracies or in some part too limited reasoning, the examiner may require the student to undertake a supplemental oral examination. The oral examination must be completed within 14 days after the examiner has notified the student of the need for an oral supplement. In the case of a passed supplemental oral examination, grades A-F are applied. If a student has a certificate with a recommendation for special educational support due to a disability, the examiner has the right to give an adapted exam or have the student take the exam in an alternative way. For more detailed information, please refer to the course description. The course description is available no later than one month before the start of the course. b. Grades will be set according to a seven-point scale related to the learning objectives of the course: A = Excellent, B = Very good, C = Good, D = Satisfactory, E = Sufficient, Fx = More work is needed, F = Much more work is needed. c. Students will be informed of the written grading criteria when the course starts. d. To receive a final grade for the entire course, a minimum grade of E on the home exam is required. e. At least two examination opportunities should be offered for each course instance during the semester in question. At least one examination opportunity should be offered during a semester or year when the course is not given. Students who receive the grade E or higher may not retake the examination to attain a higher grade. Students who receive the grade Fx or F twice by the same examiner are entitled to have another examiner appointed for the next examination, unless there are special reasons to the contary. Such requests should be made to the department board. f. This course does not include any opportunities to complete a supplementary assignement in order to convert the grade Fx or F into a passing grade.

Ahn, Ji-Hyun, Yoon, E Kyung. “Between Love and Hate: The New Korean Wave, Japanese Female Fans, and Anti-Korean Sentiments in Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2020): 179-196. DOI: 10.17477/jcea.2020.19.2.179. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: essays on art and literature, ed. by Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1993. Chae, Young Eun. “Winter Sonata and Yonsama, Ideal Love, and Masculinity: Nostalgic Desire and Colonial Memory”. I The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in a Global Context, Kuwahara, Yasue (red.), 191-212. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (SUB: E-book). Chen, Lu. “The emergence of the anti-Hallyu movement in China.“ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2017): 374-390. DOI:org/10.1177/0163443716646176. Finan, Dorothy. “Interrogating the global success of J-pop and K-pop.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 6, No 2 (2020): 159-175. doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00023_1. Fuhr, Michael. Routledge Studies in Popular Music: Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2015, pp. 37-58. (SUB: E-book). Kim, Kyung Hyun. Hegemonic Mimicry, Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Kim, Youna. (ed.). The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama. London: Routledge, 2021. (SUB: E-book). Maliangkay, Roald. “Same look through different eyes: Korea’s history of uniform pop music acts,” In K-pop: The International Rise of the Korean Music, ed. by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay, 19-34, Routledge, 2015. Mercier, Faye. “Foreign places as Korean spaces: Representations of national trauma in the South Korean dramas Ireland and Descendants of the Sun.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 6, No 1 (2020): 93-109. doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00017_1. Oh, Chuyun. “K-popscape: Gender Fludity and Racial Hybirdity in Transnational Korean Pop Dance.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2015. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/8ccf31ba-be45-4579-9a2e-7e611435d385. Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 2021. Takacs, Stacy. Interrogating Popular Culture, New York: Routledge, 2014. (SUB: E-book) Tilland, Bonnie. “Baker Kings, Rice Liquor Princesses, and the Coffee Elite: Food Nationalism and Youth Creativity in the Construction of Korean ‘Taste’ in Late 2000s and Early 2010s Television Dramas.” Acta Koreana, Vol 24, No 1, June (2021): pp. 77-104. doi: 10.18399/acta.2021.24.1.004. Yecies, Brian, Shim, Aegyung. “South Korea’s creative industry markets: Looking beyond 2020 to a rising creative economy”. I Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia, Lim, Lorraine and Lee, Hye-Kyung (ed.), 201-224. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. (SUB: E-book). Yoon, Tae-Jin, Jin, Dal Yong. (red.). The Korean Wave: Evolution, Fandom and Transnationality. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 3-125. (SUB: E-book).

The lessons of the Civil e-school project are provided in telematics, with the exception of the Anthropology of Korea, which will be provided in the presence for the students of Sapienza and in telematics for students from partner universities.

The exam focuses on Knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 1) The course provides knowledge of methodological and critical-problematic aspects of South Korean popular culture studies, showing research fields on the Korean Wave through interdisciplinary perspectives: cultural studies, soft power, cultural economy, international relations. Applying knowledge and understanding (Descriptor 2) The course develops the ability to connect the Korean Wave with other disciplinary areas: history (postwar context, relations with China and Japan), economics (creative industries), politics (cultural diplomacy), sociology (fandom, globalization), media studies. Transversal competencies (Descriptors 3-5) Students develop: • Autonomy of judgment: critical evaluation of opportunities and challenges of South Korean soft power • Communication skills: appropriate use of specialized language of cultural studies • Learning skills: research methodologies applicable to other transnational cultural phenomena

To be enrolled in a master's degree in Oriental Languages and Civilization, LM-36 who will choose to follow the Korean curriculum.

Highly recommended frequency in presence.

a. The course is examined on the basis of a written take-home exam. If special reasons exist, such as formal errors, lack of understanding, minor misunderstandings, minor errors or inaccuracies or in some part too limited reasoning, the examiner may require the student to undertake a supplemental oral examination. The oral examination must be completed within 14 days after the examiner has notified the student of the need for an oral supplement. In the case of a passed supplemental oral examination, grades A-F are applied. If a student has a certificate with a recommendation for special educational support due to a disability, the examiner has the right to give an adapted exam or have the student take the exam in an alternative way. For more detailed information, please refer to the course description. The course description is available no later than one month before the start of the course. b. Grades will be set according to a seven-point scale related to the learning objectives of the course: A = Excellent, B = Very good, C = Good, D = Satisfactory, E = Sufficient, Fx = More work is needed, F = Much more work is needed. c. Students will be informed of the written grading criteria when the course starts. d. To receive a final grade for the entire course, a minimum grade of E on the home exam is required. e. At least two examination opportunities should be offered for each course instance during the semester in question. At least one examination opportunity should be offered during a semester or year when the course is not given. Students who receive the grade E or higher may not retake the examination to attain a higher grade. Students who receive the grade Fx or F twice by the same examiner are entitled to have another examiner appointed for the next examination, unless there are special reasons to the contary. Such requests should be made to the department board. f. This course does not include any opportunities to complete a supplementary assignement in order to convert the grade Fx or F into a passing grade.

Ahn, Ji-Hyun, Yoon, E Kyung. “Between Love and Hate: The New Korean Wave, Japanese Female Fans, and Anti-Korean Sentiments in Japan.” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2020): 179-196. DOI: 10.17477/jcea.2020.19.2.179. Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: essays on art and literature, ed. by Randal Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1993. Chae, Young Eun. “Winter Sonata and Yonsama, Ideal Love, and Masculinity: Nostalgic Desire and Colonial Memory”. I The Korean Wave: Korean Popular Culture in a Global Context, Kuwahara, Yasue (red.), 191-212. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (SUB: E-book). Chen, Lu. “The emergence of the anti-Hallyu movement in China.“ Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2017): 374-390. DOI:org/10.1177/0163443716646176. Finan, Dorothy. “Interrogating the global success of J-pop and K-pop.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 6, No 2 (2020): 159-175. doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00023_1. Fuhr, Michael. Routledge Studies in Popular Music: Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding Out K-Pop, New York: Taylor and Francis, 2015, pp. 37-58. (SUB: E-book). Kim, Kyung Hyun. Hegemonic Mimicry, Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. Kim, Youna. (ed.). The Soft Power of the Korean Wave: Parasite, BTS and Drama. London: Routledge, 2021. (SUB: E-book). Maliangkay, Roald. “Same look through different eyes: Korea’s history of uniform pop music acts,” In K-pop: The International Rise of the Korean Music, ed. by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay, 19-34, Routledge, 2015. Mercier, Faye. “Foreign places as Korean spaces: Representations of national trauma in the South Korean dramas Ireland and Descendants of the Sun.” East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 6, No 1 (2020): 93-109. doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00017_1. Oh, Chuyun. “K-popscape: Gender Fludity and Racial Hybirdity in Transnational Korean Pop Dance.” PhD thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 2015. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/8ccf31ba-be45-4579-9a2e-7e611435d385. Storey, John. Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 2021. Takacs, Stacy. Interrogating Popular Culture, New York: Routledge, 2014. (SUB: E-book) Tilland, Bonnie. “Baker Kings, Rice Liquor Princesses, and the Coffee Elite: Food Nationalism and Youth Creativity in the Construction of Korean ‘Taste’ in Late 2000s and Early 2010s Television Dramas.” Acta Koreana, Vol 24, No 1, June (2021): pp. 77-104. doi: 10.18399/acta.2021.24.1.004. Yecies, Brian, Shim, Aegyung. “South Korea’s creative industry markets: Looking beyond 2020 to a rising creative economy”. I Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia, Lim, Lorraine and Lee, Hye-Kyung (ed.), 201-224. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. (SUB: E-book). Yoon, Tae-Jin, Jin, Dal Yong. (red.). The Korean Wave: Evolution, Fandom and Transnationality. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2017, pp. 3-125. (SUB: E-book).

The lessons of the Civil e-school project are provided in telematics, with the exception of the Anthropology of Korea, which will be provided in the presence for the students of Sapienza and in telematics for students from partner universities.