Introduction : hallyu's virtuality -- Virtual landscapes : Sopyonje, the power of Kangwon province, and the host -- Viral colony: spring of Korean peninsula and epitaph -- Virtual dictatorship : the president's barber and the president's last bang -- Mea culpa : reading the North Korean as an ethnic other -- Hong Sang-Soo's death, eroticism, and virtual nationalism -- Virtual trauma : Lee Chang-Dong's oasis and secret sunshine -- Park Chan-Wook's "unknowable" oldboy -- The end of history, the beginning of historical films : Korea's new sagŭk
Summary
A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 2007-08
