“Breaking the Dam to Reunify our Country”: Alternate Histories of the Korean War in Contemporary South Korean Cinema

This article analyzes three contemporary South Korean films that (re)present alternate histories of the Korean War: 2009 Lost Memories (2009 Rosŭt’ŭmemorichŭ) (Lee Simyung (I Simyŏng), 2002), Welcome to Dongmakgol (Welk’ŏm t’u Tongmakkol) (Park Kwang-hyun (Pak Kwanghyŏn,) 2005), and Joint Security A...

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Main Author: Kristen Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea University, Center for Korean History 2015-08-01
Series:International Journal of Korean History
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Online Access:http://ijkh.khistory.org/upload/pdf/ijkh-20-2-85.pdf