LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Korean Diaspora, Mass Games, Biopolitics
Lecture 14, 05.02.2018
● In South Korea, the sport does not survive the death of Rikidozan in late 1963 and interest all
but vanishes by the 1970s
● Yet Rikidozan remains as a complex and often contradictory memory for the South, the North
and the Korean diaspora in Japan
● Hes a great atioalist figure for North Korea eause he as oth ati-Japanese and anti-
Chinese
○ His last words were: I am a Korean
● Having Fun in North Korea: the Biopolitics of Travel and Leisure
● Power to foster life (biopower)
○ Disciplines (individuals)
■ More about your own ability
■ Diet
■ Sports
○ Biopolitics (population)
■ Public health
■ Vaccination campaigns
■ Social security
● For fun: sleep, watching films, video games, drugs, liquor, promiscuity, gambling
○ The ad thigs are uprodutie, ad for od, ee though there fu
○ Fun in North Korean? Absent? Fake?
○ ‘ole of ass ulture, its ifrastruture ad its ators i orgaizig peoples leisure
○ Good wholesome fun vs. bad fun
○ Leisure activities clearly have a basic ideological purpose (similar to, or rater hard to
differentiate from, mass culture)
○ Activities are collective (mass gymnastics, team sports, social gatherings, club meetings
for more individual hobbies like painting or literature)
○ Activities are taught within an ideological framework (singing folk songs or dancing
traditional peasant dances is good because they are Korean, collective, and
representative of the culture of the laboring masses)
○ System: helps the nation as a whole
○ But also tied to considerations of health and hygiene
○ Haig proper fu is good for the orkers health i.e. their life epeta,
productivity and reproductivity)
○ Not devoid of military considerations
○ Iorporatio of sports ad praties of odil are ito dail shedules:
■ Morning calisthenics in the workplace
■ Quarterly fitness tests
○ Good fu keeps the orkers us so the dot egage i the rog kid of fu
■ For eaple i the ale orkers doritories: asturatio, hooseual
behavior, fighting
○ Fu is aipulated
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Document Summary
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