EAST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Roh Moo-Hyun, Kim Young-Sam, Lee Myung-Bak
Document Summary
National ideal and identity differences with previous era. Texts: seung ho kwan and joseph kim: the cultural industry policies of the korean government and the korean wave, dong jin seo: the will to self imaging, the will to freedom. Important role in national identity and subjectivity in 20th century - used as powerful discourse to explain what it is like to be a national subject. Industries: film, tourism, kpop, gaming, comics, literature, tv, mass media. Internet generation: young, people born after 1970s, raised in relative prosperity, apolitical not actively engaged in democratization movement, not interested in politics: 2. 386 generation: born in the 60s, first to grow up in middle class, modern housing, accustomed to nuclear family, participated in student demonstrations in the 80s, refers to computer processor, generation that went through digital transition: 3. Wartime generation: foundational experiences of liberation and civil war, clear memory of underdeveloped korea.