After the disclosures: a year of #sexual_violence_in_the_film_industry in South Korea

Kim, Jinsook

doi:10.1080/14680777.2018.1456168

Cited by 10 publications

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“…The Korean film industry has been at the forefront of the gender battle in Korea (Kim, “ After the Disclosures ”). In the 2010s, with more women active in public spaces and gender conflicts on the rise, men's aspirations for male–male bonding in cinema heightened.…”

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confidence: 99%

“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema

Kwon¹

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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HE TERM "BROMANCE," A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO OR more men, is a popular, global media narrative strategy. Early incarnations of these motifs cropped up in Hong Kong gangster films and Hollywood buddy cop films; however, since the 1990s, the bromance has become a popular culture phenomenon, complete with a subculture in which fans revel in re-imagining same-sex relationships between media characters or between real-life celebrities (Kwon, "Queering Star" 95-96). At times, showrunners and screenwriters respond directly either by referring to the slash culture in which fans queer existing literature characters or intentionally detailing more intimate relationships between the characters to gratify and stimulate fans' imaginations (Larsen and Zubernis 140). In South Korea (hereafter Korea), since the mid-2000s, a strong fan community comprised of mostly straight women authoring and/or reading fan-written gay romance literature has triggered strong industrial reactions. Films depicting bromantic narratives featuring A-listers fare well commercially, and audiences-especially younger women-have responded positively to the homosocial bonding. Based on the favorable fan reaction, a trend has emerged across the films. Bromance films feature narratives that "straighten out" close relationships between two or more men in the attempt to ensure that conservative Korean moviegoers merely find them brotherly. However, the films still include intimate moments that allow viewers with queer sensibilities to imagine a gay coupling.

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“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema

Kwon¹

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Finally, there were no studies into sexual harassment. Research on this topic started to emerge after our review period, with Hennekam and Bennet's () documentation of women's sexual harassment in cultural work more broadly, and then more recent academic reactions to the Weinstein scandal (e.g., Corcione, ; Kim, ; Sorensen, ). Given this recent evidence of how widespread and deeply ingrained practices of sexual discrimination and sexual harassment are in particular in screen work, the previous omission of this research topic is notable, and looks set to be somewhat remedied in the future.…”

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confidence: 99%

And … action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries

Eikhof

Newsinger

Luchinskaya

et al. 2018

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on Law, Ruppert, and Savage, it analyses what knowledge of gender inequality is made visible and actionable in the case of the UK screen sector. We show: (i) that the gender knowledge production for the UK screen sector operated with reductionist understandings of gender and gender inequality, and presented gender inequality as something that needed evidencing rather than changing; and (ii) that gender knowledge was circulated in two relatively distinct circuits, a policy‐ and practice‐facing one focused on workforce statistics and a more heterogeneous and critical academic one. We then discuss which aspects of gender inequality in the UK screen industry remained invisible and thus less actionable. The article concludes with a critical appreciation of how the knowledge ecology framework might help better understand gender knowledge production, in relation to social change in the UK screen sector and beyond.

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“…Workplace verbal harassment is treated as an administrative case. Rape myth is quite pervasive in Korea, so offenders often strategically countersue survivors for false allegation just to burden those survivors and prolong the case [35,44]. Core support resources for survivors are usually operated or funded by the government, yet there are non-government organizations that independently provide relevant support resources.…”

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Personalization Trade-offs in Designing a Dialogue-based Information System for Support-Seeking of Sexual Violence Survivors

Kim¹,

Hwang²,

Lee³

et al. 2022

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The lack of reliable, personalized information often complicates sexual violence survivors' support-seeking. Recently, there is an emerging approach to conversational information systems for supportseeking of sexual violence survivors, featuring personalization with wide availability and anonymity. However, a single best solution might not exist as sexual violence survivors have different needs and purposes in seeking support channels. To better envision conversational support-seeking systems for sexual violence survivors, we explore personalization trade-offs in designing such information systems. We implement a high-fidelity prototype dialogue-based information system through four design workshop sessions with three professional caregivers and interviewed with four self-identified survivors using our prototype. We then identify two forms of personalization trade-offs for conversational support-seeking systems:(1) specificity and sensitivity in understanding users and (2) relevancy and inclusiveness in providing information. To handle these trade-offs, we propose a reversed approach that starts from designing information and inclusive tailoring that considers unspecified needs, respectively. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Gender; • Human-centered computing → Interaction design process and methods.

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After the disclosures: a year of #sexual_violence_in_the_film_industry in South Korea

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema

“Hey ‘Brother’, You Can Count on Me”: Misogynistic Masculinity and Bromance Genre in South Korean Action Cinema

And … action? Gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries

Personalization Trade-offs in Designing a Dialogue-based Information System for Support-Seeking of Sexual Violence Survivors

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