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Date and Time: Thursday, August 23, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location:
The Korea Society, Eighth Floor, 950 Third Avenue
(Building entrance on the SW corner of Third Avenue)
Cost: $15 Non-members/$10 Members
Panelists:
Kim Yong Hwa (director, 200 Pound Beauty)
Michael Huh (vice president, ImaginAsian TV)
Robert Cagle (assistant professor of cinema studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Samuel Jamier (Moderator, The Korea Society's Korean Film Blog)
Recent years have seen a wave of Korean pop culture (hallyu) sweep across Asia as Korean movies, music and TV have kept audiences rapt. But now production costs are soaring, a backlash against Korean content is brewing in some of its most lucrative Asian markets and the domestic screen quota system, which nurtured the country's entertainment talent, is being dismantled. Is the Korean Wave receding?
Join the discussion as some of the top producers of Korean pop culture discuss the state of their industry and where it's headed next.
Presented in conjunction with the New York Korean Film Festival, presented by Helio (August 21 - September 2, 2007).
About the Speakers
Robert L. Cagle currently is an assistant professor of cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His essays on film have appeared in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, AfterImage and CineAction. Cagle is currently completing a study of contemporary South Korean melodrama, for which he received the Korean Film Council's 2005 Grant for Overseas Research on Korean Film.
Michael Huh is vice president of marketing and strategic development at ImaginAsian TV. Prior to joining ImaginAsian TV, Huh was vice president of marketing and business development for e-Comsoft, Inc., an e-commerce firm, and an integral founding member/vice president of marketing at abuz.net, a total solution e-commerce consulting firm. Huh also spent eight years at RJRSyracuse University and a BA from Colgate University. Nabisco, where he served as regional marketing and business planning director for the Asia Pacific region and managing director for Korea. Huh holds an MBA from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and a BA from Colgate University.
Kim Yong Hwa is the director of the recently released film 200-Pound Beauty, which has already become the eighth highest-grossing Korean-made film and been nominated for a Grand Bell award. Kim made his directorial debut in 2000 with his graduation short film Salty Fish, which won prizes at the Rochester International Film Festival and Houston International Film Festival. He made his feature film debut with the 2003 hit Oh! Brothers. Kim is a graduate of ChungAng University where he majored in film.
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