Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Suk-young Kim In brief Date - 7 November 2024Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Professor Suk-young Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara)Title - Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual Property in Millenial North Korea About the eventWe live in a hyper-networked world where joining online platforms and entering digital transactions play a pivotal role in spinning unique 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?This talk explores the unique case of millennial North Korea where the state is anxiously trying to catch up with the world standard of communication technology while also faced with the need to block free influx of outside information. In a country where smuggling foreign media still can be punished by public execution, how do North Koreans manage to access outside information?This seminar 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.About the speakerSuk-Young Kim is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and External engagement at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work primarily focuses on unearthing the historical roots of today’s popular culture.She is the author of Illusive Utopia :Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Michigan, 2010), DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Columbia, 2014), K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance (Stanford, 2018), and Surviving Squid Game (Applause Theater and Cinema Books, 2023). She also co-authored Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Columbia, 2009) and edited Cambridge Companion to K-Pop (Cambridge, 2023). Her most recent book is titled Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance (Stanford, 2024).About the Distinguished Lecture seriesEach year, the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers to give a free public lecture. They cover a range of topics, from literature and poetry to international relations.Often, speakers will present on recent publications, and audiences have the opportunity to participate in question and answer sessions after presentations.Selected lectures have been recorded and uploaded to the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies’ YouTube channel and Facebook page.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. Registration is not required.Are you interested in studying with us?Study Korean Studies with us and explore one of the most dynamic countries in East Asia, gaining a unique vantage point on crucial topics of relevance across the Northeast Asian region and the globe. We offer a taught MSc in East Asian Studies with a Korean pathway as well as an MSc by Research and a PhD in Korean Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 07 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Suk-young Kim Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person seminar by Professor Suk-young Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara), entitled 'Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual Property in Millenial North Korea'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Suk-young Kim In brief Date - 7 November 2024Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareSpeaker - Professor Suk-young Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara)Title - Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual Property in Millenial North Korea About the eventWe live in a hyper-networked world where joining online platforms and entering digital transactions play a pivotal role in spinning unique 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?This talk explores the unique case of millennial North Korea where the state is anxiously trying to catch up with the world standard of communication technology while also faced with the need to block free influx of outside information. In a country where smuggling foreign media still can be punished by public execution, how do North Koreans manage to access outside information?This seminar 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.About the speakerSuk-Young Kim is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and External engagement at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work primarily focuses on unearthing the historical roots of today’s popular culture.She is the author of Illusive Utopia :Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Michigan, 2010), DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border (Columbia, 2014), K-pop Live: Fans, Idols, and Multimedia Performance (Stanford, 2018), and Surviving Squid Game (Applause Theater and Cinema Books, 2023). She also co-authored Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor (Columbia, 2009) and edited Cambridge Companion to K-Pop (Cambridge, 2023). Her most recent book is titled Millennial North Korea: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance (Stanford, 2024).About the Distinguished Lecture seriesEach year, the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers to give a free public lecture. They cover a range of topics, from literature and poetry to international relations.Often, speakers will present on recent publications, and audiences have the opportunity to participate in question and answer sessions after presentations.Selected lectures have been recorded and uploaded to the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies’ YouTube channel and Facebook page.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. Registration is not required.Are you interested in studying with us?Study Korean Studies with us and explore one of the most dynamic countries in East Asia, gaining a unique vantage point on crucial topics of relevance across the Northeast Asian region and the globe. We offer a taught MSc in East Asian Studies with a Korean pathway as well as an MSc by Research and a PhD in Korean Studies. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 07 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Suk-young Kim Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person seminar by Professor Suk-young Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara), entitled 'Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual Property in Millenial North Korea'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square
Nov 07 2024 16.30 - 18.00 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Suk-young Kim Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person seminar by Professor Suk-young Kim (University of California, Santa Barbara), entitled 'Risky Networks: Subverting Block Chain Technology and Intellectual Property in Millenial North Korea'.
