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This unit is not offered in 2025.
Learning outcomes
Identify recent developments in cultural policy and output in North and South Korea and explain the significance of popular cultural flows in East Asia;
Critically examine the connection between the production, distribution and consumption of popular culture and its evolving historical, political and sociocultural contexts;
Critically analyse primary works of popular culture (TV dramas, film, pop music videos, graphic novels) from a commercial cultural and a state media context using appropriate theoretical frameworks;
Engage in informed discussion of the different texts and contexts studied in the unit;
Use appropriate theoretical and research tools to analyse relevant case studies.
Teaching approach
Assessment summary
Within semester assessment: 100%
Assessment
Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities
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Korean studies