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SUMMARY:Millennial North Korea: Taking Risks with Viral Narratives
LOCATION:Cambridge University: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
DESCRIPTION:We live in a hyper-networked world where joining online platfo
 rms and entering digital transactions play a pivotal role in spinning uniq
 ue dynamics of today’s sociality. But what if our digital interface with
  the world is limited to few state-sanctioned platforms? What if the most 
 significant transactions we make must take place offline\, not online? Thi
 s talk explores the unique case of millennial North Korea where the state 
 is anxiously trying to catch up with the world standard of communication t
 echnology while also faced with the need to block free influx of outside i
 nformation. In a country where smuggling foreign media still can be punish
 ed by public execution\, how do North Koreans manage to access outside inf
 ormation? This presentation explores the way in which the expansion of new
  media technology complicates North Korea’s seemingly monolithic facade 
 mired in entangled networks of technology and surveillance\, intellectual 
 property and copyrights\, and the way millennials live with censorship and
  surveillance. Suk-Young Kim is Professor of Theater and Performance Studi
 es at UCLA’s School of Theater\, Film\, and Television. She is the autho
 r of Illusive Utopia :Theater\, Film\, and Everyday Performance in North K
 orea (Michigan\, 2010)\, DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Al
 ong the Korean Border (Columbia\, 2014)\, K-pop Live: Fans\, Idols\, and M
 ultimedia Performance (Stanford\, 2018)\, and Surviving Squid Game (Applau
 se Theater and Cinema Books\, 2023). She also co-authored Long Road Home: 
 Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Columbia\, 2009) and edited Cam
 bridge Companion to K-Pop (Cambridge\, 2023). Her most recent book is titl
 ed Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surv
 eillance (Stanford\, 2024). This talk is part of the Ra-Jong-yil Forum in 
 Korean Studies.
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