LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Syngman Rhee, Box Office, Park Chung-Hee
Lecture 15, 05.04.2018
Developmentalism and the Vietnam War
● Yogjas Hedas
○ Director: Kim Ho-sun
○ Starring: Yom Pok-sun
○ Adapted from a novel by Cho Son-jak
● Box Office hit
● Released in 1975 under the regime of Park Chung-hee
● Sga ‘hee → so oseatie
● 1972 Marshall Law
○ Yusin Constitution: more authoritarian, more power to the president
● Woman: I have a choice, I have a dream
○ Women have a choice, even as a sex worker
○ Has the right to consent
○ Reflected in the midst of her being oppressed and abused
○ Also reflected in a Flower in Hell
○ Could refuse to service a customer so that she could heal and take her medicine
■ Put herself over others
● The 9s ae diffiult ties fo Koea iea
● Competition from Hollywood movies
○ Despite protectionist regulations
● Rise of television as a new mass media
○ ~, TV sets i 9, illios the id 9s ith goeet sposoship
○ The beginning of K-dramas
● Fear of losing audiences and revenues leads to aesthetic changes in film production
● More sex, more violence, more drama
● Hostess fils as a gee:
○ Heavenly homecoming to stars, Blue Days, Winter Woman
○ Often adapted from popular novels
● Ifluee of Aeia seploitatio fils ad Japaese pik fils
● Precursor to the erotic movies of the 1980s
● Gender censoring
○ Woe postitutes ake it past the eso, ut soe dot
■ Woe ho ejo se ad gie it aa fo fee → BAD
● She started eating an apple and she had nowhere to sleep:
○ Falling for temptation (Adam and Eve, Snow White)
● Still the common Enlightenment style moalisti disouse ee oe to epet
○ The pure country girl with good morals perverted by the city
○ Sacrifices her money to support her mother and family
○ Both Yogja ad Chagsu dea of a oal fail life i.e. to a a ee of the
opposite sex and have children)
○ Yogja as soiled seual assault ad late postitutio
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