Chung Chonghwa

BRIEF BIO

Chonghwa Chung (KOFA) is Head of Research & Curation, senior researcher at the Korean Film Archive, and adjunct professor with Kyung Hee and Chung Ang universities in South Korea. His major research field is Korean film history and comparative film history between Korea and Japan. He published the five volumes of the series of Joseon cinema in Japanese Magazines (Korean Film Archive) from 2010 to 2014. He received a JSPS post-doctoral fellowship and worked at Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities from 2014 to 2016.

CURRENT AND FUTURE PROJECTS

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RECENT REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

His publications include 100 Years of Korean Film History: From Birth to Globalized Development (Akashi Shoten, 2017), Korean Modern Film History: From 1892 to 1945 (Co-author, Dolbegae, 2019) and Modernity as Joseon Cinema: History of Negotiation on Film between the Colonial and the Colonized (Park-E-Jung, 2020). His papers include “Mode of Cinematic Plagiarism and Adaptation: How Ishizaka Yojiro’s Novels Launched Korean Youth Film” in Korea Journal, (vol. 57, no. 3, Autumn 2017), “The Identity of “Joseon Film”: Between Colonial Cinema and National Cinema” in Korea Journal (vol.59, no.4, Winter 2019), and “Between ideology and entertainment: Gyeongseong (Seoul) cinemas under the colonial rule between 1934 and 1942” in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (vol.12, March 2020).)