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

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

8-1. The Fifth Republic and the 3S Policy

8-2. Color Television and the Live Broadcast of “Looking for a Divided Family”

8-3. Professional Baseball and the ’88 Olympics

8-4. Movies in the 1980s and the Film Movements

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