LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Minjung, Chaebol, Network Theory
Lecture 16, 05.08.2018
● Miracle on the Han River
○ From developing country to developed country
○ Heavy government intervention (five year plans)
○ Iport sustitutio → eport drie idustrializatio
○ Heavy industries (steel, shipbuilding, chemicals), consumer electronics
○ Development of chaebol conglomerates: Samsung, Hyundae, LG, Posco
● Idustrializatio ad uraizatio: “eouls Choggeho rier
● Dirty aspect of the economy
○ Slums next to the river
● But the eooi irale also has a hua ost
● Critiis of Parks ad his suessors eooi poliies ill fuel the literature of the s
ad s Yougju ‘u, Writers of the Witer ‘epuli
○ 1970: Kim Chi-has Fie adits ollisio etee the state, the military and the
conglomerates)
○ 1975-: Cho “ehuis The Darf eitio of ura poors for redeelopet,
capitalistic obsession with rationalization and measurement)
○ Minjung movement (70s-80s) mix of traditionalism, nationalism and proletarian politics.
Aesthetic and political movement defending the rights of the masses
● The apartment, a new living space
○ Status symbol for the new middle class
○ No land
○ More privacy, less community
○ Modern comfort, but standardized lifestyle (similar floorplans, similar complex designs)
● The modern apartment as the symbol of an ideal, patriarchal middle-class lifestyle
○ Patriarhal: ifes jo to ope the door for hi
● Second message: more and more estranged wife, pessimism
● Standardization, consumerism, routine
○ Wifes letter
○ Title aother as roo
● Alienation
● Relationship between consumer products
○ The thigs i the persos apartet see to oe to life
○ Actor network theory
■ Object oriented philosophy
● The main character is turning into a consumer object, and his wife finds him as an object
(metaphoric)
○ His presence to her, is no more to her than the presence of an object
○ Families are being estranged from each other because of consumerism
○ Frankfurt school of thinking: Marcuse
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