Episode Synopsis "S2 - Episode 2 (Becky Bae): Contemporary Korean Media - "The Handmaiden" and Webtoons"

In our second episode of season two, Becky Bae, a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, examines Park Chan-Wook’s film "The Handmaiden" and how it subverts common tropes in the portrayal of the Japanese colonial era in contemporary Korean cinema and the rise of Korean webtoons in contrast to the older medium of Korean manhwa.

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