In the 2000s, interest in Korean film studies boomed and the increasing interest in South Korean films after the industry’s resurgence in global film due to blockbusters like Shiri (1999), scholarly interest in analyzing the archetypal “North-South struggle” caused the South Korean film history field to expand. Within the field, two areas of study predominate: political film history and sociological analyses of the films themselves. Although neither field argues the domineering role of politics in South Korean film history, the two camps distinguish themselves in their debate regarding what aspect actually drives the South Korean film industry to keep producing films on the inter-Korean conflict. The field is categorized by a chronological division in sources, with sources covering the conjunction of South Korean political history and film history emerging first, offering three perspectives , and sources looking at a sociological angle, more specifically, the formation of a South Korean identity emerging in more recent
In the 2000s, interest in Korean film studies boomed and the increasing interest in South Korean films after the industry’s resurgence in global film due to blockbusters like Shiri (1999), scholarly interest in analyzing the archetypal “North-South struggle” caused the South Korean film history field to expand. Within the field, two areas of study predominate: political film history and sociological analyses of the films themselves. Although neither field argues the domineering role of politics in South Korean film history, the two camps distinguish themselves in their debate regarding what aspect actually drives the South Korean film industry to keep producing films on the inter-Korean conflict. The field is categorized by a chronological division in sources, with sources covering the conjunction of South Korean political history and film history emerging first, offering three perspectives , and sources looking at a sociological angle, more specifically, the formation of a South Korean identity emerging in more recent