AP/KOR 3600
Contemporary Korea: Identity, Society, and Culture
Undated
Topics
- Contemporary Korean society
- Cultural and political change
- Cuisine
- Gender
- Identity
- Cyberculture
- Family and care
- Urban middle classes
Readings
- No required textbook. Sample reading: Kang (2020, as stated in outline), “It All Started with a Bang: The Role of PC Bangs in South Korea’s Cybercultures,” in The Korean Popular Culture Reader, pp. 55–75.
- Sample reading: Kang (2014), “Love and Money: Commercial Postpartum Care and the Reinscription of Patriarchy in Contemporary South Korea,” Journal of Korean Studies 19(2), 379–397.
- Sample reading: Yang (2018), “The Rise of ‘Gangnam style’: Manufacturing the Urban Middle Class in Seoul, 1976–1996,” Urban Studies 55(15), 3404–3420.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public abbreviated course outline ↗Undated
- Short public planning outline; material and assessments may change in the final syllabus. The document does not state an academic year; archive upload date is 2026-05-25.