1-1. What is Pop Culture

1-2. Course Structure (1)

1-3. Course Structure (2)

2-1. Contact with the Outside World and the Introduction of New Cultural Artifacts

2-2. People Reading Newspapers

2-3. Era of Speech

2-4. Introduction of Motion Pictures

2-5. Emergence of Modern Theaters

3-1. Introduction of Modern Media

3-2. Theater Culture in Seoul during the Colonial Era, “Modern Boys,” and “Modern Girls”

3-3. Arirang, a Film That Became a Myth

3-4. Gramophone Records and the Era of Popular Culture

3-5. JODK, “This is Gyeongseong Broadcasting Station”

4-1. Rise of “Korean style”

4-2. Nageune (The Traveler) and “Chōsen Boom” in Japan

4-3. Choseon Akgeukdan’s (Chōsen Theater Company) Tour in Northeast Asia and the Audience of the Empire

4-4. Empire and the World of Choi Seung-hee, “the Dancer of the Peninsula”

5-1. Beginning of a Cultural Cold War

5-2. Show Must Go on Even during the War

5-3. Representation of Women in Postwar Popular Movies

5-4. The Eighth Army Show and Popular Music

6-1. Mass Media in the Age of Military Dictatorship

6-2. Korean Movies and the Rhetoric of Modernization

6-3. Diplomatic Normalization between South Korea and Japan and the Prohibition of Japanese Popular Culture

6-4. Formation of Leisure Culture

7-1. The “October Restoration” and the “Winter Republic”

7-2. Age of Television

7-3. Youth Culture and Cultural Control

7-4. Urbanization and the Differentiation of Film Culture

9-1. Democratization and the Lifting of the Ban

9-2. Cultural Industry and an Open Market

9-3. Korean Movies and Film Culture in the 1990s

9-4. New Generation and Their Cultural Consumption

9-5. The Seo Tai-ji Phenomenon and the Age of Visual Music

10-1. Hallyu and New Hallyu

10-2. K-Dramas: From Hallyu Dramas to the Export of Program Formats

10-3. K-Cinema: The Renaissance of Korean Films and Beyond

10-4. Global Fandom of K-POP