Update — the Show! (Club 빵!)
Update: the show we’ll be seeing on Saturday night (7:30pm) is one at Club 빵, in Hongdae. Yeah, as in “bread.” Yes, that will cost you 12,000 won. The bands playing are listed here. But if you’re too lazy to click, they are Lee Young Hun, Oyster Boys, Banana Bow, and Juck Juck Haeseo Grunge. Worth it, and you never bought a text for our class, so don’t complain! 
Here’s a map! (Click to see bigger.)
Check the earlier message for a link (at the Korea Gig Guide) to the time and band list. I expect you will be there unless you’ve talked to me with a good reason.
Feel free to bring your friends, of course. Or your enemies. I will possibly have a few friends there.
Next class is a panel discussion about “Are You A Copyright Criminal” and there’s an article in the earlier post for you to read. Also, next week, well finish our discussion (my lecture) on subversive messages in The Host and in V for Vendetta, and discuss the show we saw, and the real name system and related online free speech issues.
Hope you all have a great week! See you Thursday!
Update!
Hey everyone,
I’ve been slow to update, but here it goes:
READINGS:
I’ve decided to assign an essay by Cory Doctorow for discussion in our class next week (ie. as background to the discussion on May 28th). The essay is titled “How Hollywood, Congress, And DRM Are Beating Up The American Economy.” You may wish to read the Wikipedia page on DRM to understand what he is talking about. If you find this essay interesting, you can download a whole book of essays by Doctorow free. Legally, that is!
PRESENTATIONS:
We have the following presentations in the next few weeks:
May 26th: The Korean Blogosphere and Real Name System
- Myung-Ah Noh, Sook Ja Koo, Bo-ryung Yang
May 28th: Are You a Copyright Criminal?
- Areum Jo, Ji-eun Hwan, Do Jae-Won, Sang-Yoon Lee
June 4th: UCC: Fad or Foundation?
- Kyung-Hee Park, Sunhwa Park, Chahwan Ryu, Youngni Choi
Homework:
The following homework has been assigned in the last few weeks:
- Your dream media project, and how you would carry out the planning, creation, and other steps necessary to make it happen. (Was due today.)
- A group project describing a new technology or medium that would “kill” an older medium.
- A radio play adaptation of an existing story or narrative. Your adaptation should be made after consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of radio as a medium.
- Watch the Hollywood film V for Vendetta and the Korean film 괴물 (The Host) for next class, if you haven’t seen these movies before.
I also said that we would attend a live indie music concert as part of the homework for this course. The show will be on Saturday, May 30th, in the evening, but I’m not sure which show we should see. Please feel free to email me your recommendations if you know any of the bands listed as playing a concert on that night!
OTHER STUFF:
I mentioned the following things in lectures and discussions recently:
- The Dead Media Project
- The Onion (a major internet comedy site that is also a local newspaper in some parts of the USA)
- Indymedia.org (a major independent newsmedia site in the English-speaking world)
- a couple of sites devoted to Korean Indie music and culture: