Event information:
Guest Speaker: Dr. Taeyoung Kim, lecturer in Communication and Media at the School of Social Science and Humanities at Loughbourough University (UK)
Moderator: Dr. Jonathan Paquette, professor in the School of Political Studies and International Francophonie Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies
Description:
During the talk, Taeyoung will examine the Korean government’s approach to promoting the nation’s cultural industries when much of the production and delivery becomes more subject to the interests of foreign market forces and market logic. Based on interviews with cultural bureaucrats and staff in the nation’s film and television production, he will introduce how the Korean government persists in engaging in the nation’s cultural industries. The findings indicate that it sticks to maintaining its legacies of the developmental state—from policymaking to allocating resources—while much of its budget is managed by market players and operated by market mechanisms. The findings explain that the government adopts market logic to its cultural domain while continuing to instrumentalise cultural products.
The event will take place in English in person and on Zoom.
Biography:
Dr. Taeyoung Kim, lecturer in Communication and Media at the School of Social Science and Humanities at Loughbourough University of (UK). Inspired by the traditions of critical media studies and the political economy of communications, Taeyoung’s research centres on understanding the relationship between global and local forces in local cultural production at a time when many of the production and delivery mechanisms are reshaped and disrupted by US-based media and platform companies, and how the state responds to the globalisation of local cultural production.