The 5th Conference on Korean Screen Culture

Following successful conferences on Korean Screen Culture held at SOAS, the University of London (2012 & 2013), Sheffield Hallam University (2014), and the University of Copenhagen (2015), the Department of Film Studies at King’s College London is pleased to announce the 5th Korean Screen Culture Conference to be hosted by the Department of Film Studies in collaboration with the Korea Foundation and the Korean Cultural Center, UK. The conference aims to critically engage with some of the important and urgent issues that have affected and guided contemporary Korean screen culture; in particular cinema, television, web comics, and music. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of Korean screen culture, South and North Korean cinema past and present, video games, production, distribution & reception of film, television, K-pop music videos, also the transnational and intermedial aesthetics of Korean screen culture such as the impacts of the Korean Wave (Hallyu), transnational and intermedial adaptations, co-productions, collaborations, and various intermedia practices.