BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;East Asia Program&nb sp\;present Korean Wave\, K-Pop\, and Monster Kitsch: The Politics and Aes thetics of the K-Culture Industry \;A \;Talk by \;Jake Levine\ , \;Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at\nKeimyung University\, Korea \;This talk explores\nthe “poetic consequences of K-pop\,” as po et Emily Jungmin Yoon puts it\, writing\nabout how when she sees “BTS sing ing in Korean on American television and when\nI see their American fans—m any of them young people of color\, I have\nnoticed—chanting along to the Korean lyrics… I want to believe... That they\, in\nturn\, engage with tra nslation\, with imagination and creativity. That they find\npoetry in that process.” What in K-pop is being translated? Does this kind of\ncultural product require translation? The talk\nexamines the aesthetics of the K-po p culture industry\, the rise of\nK-pop as a global export\, and some of t he forces behind its production. \;\n\nJake\nLevine is an American tra nslator\, poet\, and scholar. He received both his BA\nand MFA from the Un iversity of Arizona and is currently A.B.D in a PhD program\nin Comparativ e Literature at Seoul National University. He works as an\nassistant profe ssor of creative writing at Keimyung University and as a lecturer\nat the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. He is the assistant editor at\n Acta Koreana and the editor for the Korean poetry series \;Moon Countr y \;at Black Ocean.\nHis most recent translations are Kim Yi Deum’s&nb sp\;Hysteria \;(Action\nBooks\, 2019)\, Kim Kyung Ju’s \;Butterfly Sleep \;(Tupelo Press\,\n2019) and Kim Kyung Ju’s \;Whale and Vap or \;(Black Ocean\, 2019).\nHis work has appeared in \;Boston Revi ew\, Granta\, Hallyu Magazine\, The\nMargins \;and many other places.& nbsp\; Sponsored by Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, East Asia Progr am\, Humanities Center\, \; Asian/Asian American Studies Program\, \nK orean\nPeninsula Affairs Center\,\nInternational\nRelations Program\, and Department of Languages\,\nLiteratures\, and Linguistics\n\n\n\n \;Con tact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu \n\n DTEND:20200214T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260513T020922Z DTSTART:20200214T173000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Korean Wave\, K-Pop\, and Monster Kitsch: The Politics and Aestheti cs of the K-Culture Industry UID:RFCALITEM639142205620157265 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program \;

present

Korean Wave\, K-Pop\, and Monster Kitsch: The Politics and Aesthetics of the K-Culture Industry \;

A \;Talk by \;Jake Levine\, \;A ssistant Professor of Creative Writing at\nKeimyung University\, Korea&nbs p\;

This talk explores\nthe “poetic consequences of K-pop\,” as poet Emily Jungmin Yoon puts it\, writing\nabout how when she sees “BTS singin g in Korean on American television and when\nI see their American fans—man y of them young people of color\, I have\nnoticed—chanting along to the Ko rean lyrics… I want to believe... That they\, in\nturn\, engage with trans lation\, with imagination and creativity. That they find\npoetry in that p rocess.” What in K-pop is being translated? Does this kind of\ncultural pr oduct require translation? The talk\nexamines the aesthetics of the K-pop culture industry\, the rise of\nK-pop as a global export\, and some of the forces behind its production. \;

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Jake\nLevine is an American translator\, poet\, and scholar. He received both his BA\nand MFA from the University of Arizona and is currently A.B.D in a PhD program\ni n Comparative Literature at Seoul National University. He works as an\nass istant professor of creative writing at Keimyung University and as a lectu rer\nat the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. He is the assistant editor at\nActa Koreana and the editor for the Korean poetry series \ ;Moon Country \;at Black Ocean.\nHis most recent translations are Kim Yi Deum’s \;Hysteria \;(Action\nBooks\, 2019)\, Ki m Kyung Ju’s \;Butterfly Sleep \;(Tupelo Press\,\n2019) and Kim Kyung Ju’s \;Whale and Vapor \;(Black Ocean\, 2019).\n His work has appeared in \;Boston Review\, Granta\, Hallyu Magazine \, The\nMargins \;and many other places. \;

Sponsored b y Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\, East Asia Program\, Humanities Ce nter\, \; Asian/Asian American Studies Program\, \nKorean\nPeninsula A ffairs Center\,\nInternational\nRelations Program\, and Department of Lang uages\,\nLiteratures\, and Linguistics\n\n

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Con tact Havva Karakas-Keles for more information: hkarakas@syr.edu

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