Kimchi, K-pop and Kowiana: Korean-NZ Cultural Engagement? S tephen - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Kimchi, K-pop and Kowiana: Korean-NZ Cultural Engagement? S tephen Epstein Victoria University of Wellington

“ Imagining the Community: Newspapers, Cyberspace and the (Non-)Construction of Korean-NZ Identity”  Enhancing or delaying hybridization?  Global media flows  Increased travel  Improvements in ICT  The internet revolution, etc.

Cultural Engagement:Constructing a “ Kowi ” identity  Name: Kowiana; Korean AND Kiwi  Food Symbolism: Kimchi AND Marmite  Language: Korean AND English (and don ’ t forget Maori)  Iconography: Silver Fern AND Taegeukgi  Local media: Mainstream AND specific Korean outlets  Sponsors: Auckland U. AND Korean consulting firm  The importance of AND – not OR

“Kowis” Taking Flight “to take flight” = to be given wings to fly, not to flee cf. Daemang Productions, “Microdot Makes it Hot”: "future blood/ the young blood/ this one goes out to all my hanguk 1.5 and second generations in New Zealand/….we're going to put super wings on your back to fly, baby/ ….don't you never ever say that I cannot do this/ because I know you can/…. neon hal su isseo ( 넌 할 수 있어 )… neon jashine mideo ( 넌 자신에 어 )"

Daemang Productions: “Freedom March ’05” Let me tell you exactly where I'm from/Aotearoa/The land of the long/White cloud and I'm proud to be a citizen/I gets in/where I fits in…. ….moved to West Auckland/now I’m down with the rest of them… My rap career/got me going places/ now I’m rappin’ to Korea/I see ya….. From the Cape to the Canterbury Plates…Sky Tower and the City of Sails….

NZ K-Pop Fans

Bret of Flight of the Conchords sings noraebang -style… from New Y ork?

Korean/ NZ culinary engagement as a site for global hybridities

The Growing Fields for Korean-NZ Cultural Engagement  Graci Kim: http:/ / graciinthekitc hen.com/  Created in… .  … Taipei?  Double-Layered Butterscotch Pavlova  S picy Korean Pan- Fried Pork ( 제육볶음 )  “ Giulia & Graci’s Taipei Rose Cocktail”

Lydia Ko/ 고보경 In other words… . Korean-New Zealand cultural engagement is taking place on a global “playing field” Music Food Sport

. 오빤 타카푸나 style! …  National/ Global: Korea, NZ and China  Local: Gangnam and Takapuna  A story with the same three elements…  Food  Music  S port… .  Riding the invisible horse!

“ Korean-NZ” Cultural Engagement or “Korean/NZ” Cultural Engagement? Sonia Hae-Rim Kim 김해림 and/or - Epstein