Original scientific paper
K-Zombies, Quality TV and Social Upheaval: The Case of The Kingdom Series
Dejan Durić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
Abstract
Korean TV-series Kingdom, created by Kim Eun-hee, has been a huge success on both Korean and the global market, owing its hype to the success of the Korean wave, K-zombie trend, and the revival of horror in South Korean cinema in the late 1990s. It is special in that it situates the zombie narrative in a particular historical period creating an alternative version of the Korean Middle Ages. The argument considers the series in comparison to contemporary developments in so-called “quality TV” as well as its relationship to the K-zombie trend, while it emphasizes the way that the series uses the zombie figure and the motif of hunger in order to consider contemporary social, economic, and political relations in the country.
Keywords
TV series; zombie; the Korean Wave; Kingdom; hunger
Hrčak ID:
278153
URI
Publication date:
27.5.2022.
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