Association for Asian Studies 2026 Committee of Korean Studies Pre-Conference
Nostalgia or Renaissance of Popular Culture in the 1990s
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Venue: 911吃瓜 Harbour Centre 2270
9:30 Welcome Reception
9:50 Opening Remarks
10:00-11:40 Nostalgia, Fashion, and PC communication of the 1990s
Chair: Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser U.)
Chung Kang Kim (Hanyang U.) 鈥淐hatting about Movies: PC communication, Movie Quiz, and the Formation of 鈥楾aste.鈥�
Ju Oak Kim (Texas A&M International U.) 鈥淏aekdu Daegan: Art Film Movements in Korea.鈥�
So-Rim Lee (U Penn) 鈥淣an Naya: Girl Power and the Aesthetics of Gen-X Self-Fashioning in the 1990s.鈥�
Jahyon Park (Wesleyan U.) 鈥淎nimating Nostalgia, Animating Failure: Revisiting Exorcism Chronicles in the Era of the Korean Wave.鈥�
11:40-12:50 Lunch
12:50-14:15 K-pop鈥檚 Roots in the 1990s
Chair: CedarBough Saeji (Busan U.)
Pil Ho Kim, (Ohio State U.) 鈥淩evolutionary Songs Will Be Televised: Nochatsa, Kim Kwangs艔k, Chong T鈥檃ech鈥檜n, and the Rise of Protest Folk in 1990s鈥� Mainstream Korean Pop.鈥�
Areum Jeong (Arizona State U.) 鈥淜-pop Fan Fiction: The Deokhu Archive, Gendered Narratives, and Transmedia Platforms.鈥�
Donna Kwon (U of Kentucky) 鈥淎nalyzing the Implications of K-pop鈥檚 Multivocal Roots in the 1990s.鈥�
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-16:10 Reflection of the 1990s - Screen Media towards Global
Chair: Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State U.)
Young A Jung (George Mason U.) 鈥淭he Transformation of Mobile Communications and Dating Customs in the 1990s: Ppippi and Yeonae in the Reply Series.鈥�
Seongbin Hwang (Rikkyo U.) 鈥淣ostalgia and the Digital Shift: The Selective Memory of Narrative and Music in 1990s-set "Newtro" Dramas.鈥�
Taeyoung Kim (Loughborough U.) 鈥淪treaming Media鈥檚 Commodification of the Korean Past: A Case Study of When Life Gives Tangerine.鈥�
Dahye Kim (Northwestern U.) 鈥淣on-Western Media Theory amid the Global鈥揕ocal Dialectic: The South Korean 1990s.鈥�
16:10-17:45 Roundtable: Korean Cinema in Transition
鈥淲hat comes after New Korean Cinema? A Conversation on Periodization鈥�
Chair: Chung Kang Kim (Hanyang U.)
Participants:
Ji-yoon An (UBC)
Joseph Jeon (UC Irvine)
Hee Seung Irene Lee (U of Auckland)
Nam Lee (Chapman U.)
