Korea: Modernity and Culture
Edited by Haerin Shin
In Telos 184, a special issue on Korea, we focus on the meaning and value of modernity in order to reconsider and challenge the episteme of progress that has for so long dominated the globe. The essays assembled here explore the cultural, historical, theoretical, literary, and political matrix of entanglements that demarcate Korea’s contemporaneity over a wide spectrum of topics.
Introduction
Haerin Shin
The DMZ Responds
Seo-Young Chu
“Like a Miracle”: On Figurative Language, Combat Magics, and Korean War Necropoetics
Stephen Hong Sohn
Art of Resistance: Nostalgia in North Korea’s Literary Production
Immanuel Kim
Sorrowful Feeling: Han and Its Haunting Legacies
Meera Lee
The Korean Wave and the Impasse of Theory
Peter Yoonsuk Paik
You Can’t Write “Pak” on Television: Language as Power in Hebrew K-pop Fandom
Dafna Zur
Running Man: The Korean Television Variety Program on the Transnational, Affective Run
Kyung Hyun Kim with Tian Li
The Flesh of Democracy: Plastic Surgery and Human Capital in South Korea
Alex Taek-Gwang Lee
The Sublime Objects of Affectivity: Shoes, Vampires, and Colors in Park Chan-wook’s Thirst
Hyun Seon Park
Reviews
Russia’s Long Anti-Revolution of Constitutionalism
Richard Sakwa
