#  Seoul, Dislocation, and the Consumption of the Korean Mobile Nation through (Food) Media: From bang 房 to bang(song) 放(送) 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 16, 2023** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

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*Korea Colloquium*

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**Ellie Choi**  
Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Culture and Society in the East Asian Studies Department at Brown University

Her current research interests include the Seoul city, colonial Korea and Pyongyang, spatiality, transnational food media, cyberspace, and dislocation. She is the author of <a>“Consuming the Korean Mobile Nation: Seoul, Dislocation, and the Search for Belonging in (Food) Media” </a>(*Journal of Cinema and Media Studies* 62.3 May 2023), “In the Shadow of Nation and Empire: North(west)ern (西北人) Writers in Colonial Seoul” *(Routledge,* 2020), and “Forgotten Memories of Modernity: Yi Kwangsu’s *The Heartless* and New Perspectives in Colonial Alterity,” (*The Journal of Asian Studies*, August 2018).

Chaired by **Si Nae Park**, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

**Abstract:**

A hyper-focused developmentalism from the Park Chung Hee era (1961-1979) onward in South Korea gave rise to the now (in)famous “Miracle on the Han,” which eventually linked Seoul to global capitalist networks. It forged the cosmopolitan expanse of contemporary Seoul, a megapolis of glittering lights, kaleidoscopic signboards, and towering apartment complexes (*ap’at’u tanji*). Topographies of the city and country began to emerge in the Korean cinematographic imagination from the 1990’s as reactions to Seoul’s hyper-modernity. Depictions of resting in an idyllic countryside, or in rooms (*bangs*) hidden *within* the city often portray eating, indexing a global media trend linking identity to food, which comes from the earth or *terroir*. Today, all media (television, film, and digital-born media) are streamed into tablets and smart phones, bypassing stationary devices and old boundaries. These streamed images affect virtual-togetherness in a Korean “mobile nation,” an online community of domestic and international viewers consuming “Korea(-n food)” together, *interstitially*. Evocative foodscapes conjure feelings of belonging as consumers engage in timed chats and upload content.

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*Generously supported by the Young Chul Min Memorial Fund at the Korea Institute, Harvard University*



 

 



 

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