1-1. What is Popular Culture?

1-2. Course Structure (1)

1-3. Course Structure (2)

2-1. Contact with the World, Introduction of New Civilizations

2-2. People Reading Newspapers

2-3. The Age of Speeches

2-4. The Advent of Cinema

2-5. The Appearance of Modern Theaters

4-1. The Rise of 'Chosen-ness'

4-2. The Film Naguene and Japan's 'Chosen Boom'

4-3. The Chosen Theater Company's Northeast Asian Tour and Imperial Audiences

4-4. 'The Dancer of the Peninsula' Choi Seung-hee's Empire and the World

5-1. Prelude to the Cultural Cold War

5-2. War, But the Show Must Go On

5-3. Representation of Women in Post-War Popular Films

5-4. U.S. Eighth Army Show and Popular Music

6-1. Mass Media of the Military Government

6-2. The Rhetoric of Modernization and Korean Cinema

6-3. Normalization of Korea-Japan Diplomatic Relations, and the Forbidden Culture 'Japan'

6-4. Formation of Leisure Culture

7-1. October Restoration and the Winter Republic

7-2. The Era of "An Bang" Theater

7-3. Youth Culture and Cultural Control

7-4. Urbanization and Diversification of Film Culture

8-1. The Fifth Republic’s 3S Policy

8-2. Color TV and the Live Broadcast of "Finding Families"

8-3. Professional Baseball and the 88 Olympics

8-4. 1980s Cinema and the Film Movement

9-1. Democratization and Lifting of Bans

9-2. Cultural Industry and Market Opening

9-3. 1990s Korean Cinema and Film Culture

9-4. The Emergence of the New Generation and Cultural Consumption

9-5. The Seo Taiji phenomenon and the Era of 'visual music'

10-1. The Korean Wave and the New Korean Wave

10-2. K-Dramas: From "Korean Wave Dramas" to Program Format Exports

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

10-4. K-POP’s Global Fandom