Kyung Hyun Kim is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, also published by Duke University Press, and a co-producer of the award-winning feature films The Housemaid and Never Forever.

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Foreword / Martin Scorsese ix
Preface xi
Introduction: Hallyu's Virtuality 1
1. Virtual Landscapes: Sopyonje, The Power of Kangwon Province, and The
Host 23
2. Viral Colony: Spring of Korean Peninsula and Epitaph 55
3. Virtual Dictatorship: The President's Barber and The President's Last
Bang 81
4. Mea Culpa: Reading the North Korean as an Ethnic Other 101
5. Hong Sang-soo's Death, Eroticism, and Virtual Nationalism 123
6. Virtual Trauma: Lee Chang-dong's Oasis and Secret Sunshine 152
7. Park Chan-wook's "Unknowable" Oldboy 178
8. The End of History, the Beginning of Historical Films Korea's New Sagük
200
Notes 213
Bibliography 235
Index 243

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