In Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars (Applause Books, 2023), scholar Suk-Young Kim reflects on Netflix's most-viewed series and one of the most influential Korean dramas, Squid Game. The series premiered in September 2021, when the pandemic cloud still hung heavy over viewers and seemed to mirror the societal ills C ... Show More
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and entertainment, pried open the closed societies behind the Iron Curtain, and then sank back into oblivion. Its meteoric rise and fall encapsulated the dynamics of the '80s and foreshadowe ... Show More
44m 53s
Nov 17
Doug MacCash, "Mardi Gras Beads" (Louisiana UP, 2022)
The first in a new LSU Press series exploring facets of Louisiana’s iconic culture, Mardi Gras Beads (2022) delves into the history of this celebrated New Orleans artifact, explaining how Mardi Gras beads came to be in the first place and how they grew to have such an outsize pre ... Show More
38m 56s
Jul 2023
Suk-Young Kim, "Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars" (Applause Books, 2023)
In Surviving Squid Game: A Guide to K-Drama, Netflix, and Global Streaming Wars (Applause Books, 2023), scholar Suk-Young Kim reflects on Netflix's most-viewed series and one of the most influential Korean dramas, Squid Game. The series premiered in September 2021, when the pande ... Show More
48m 9s
Aug 2024
Season 3, Episode 10: Jean Dong, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World
Please join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and China expert, Jean Dong as they discuss Dong’s fascinating book, Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World: Demystifying Enduring Traditions and Dynamic Constraints. Dr. Dong offers a rich and subtle historical perspective on China’s statecraf ... Show More
40m 34s
Jun 2025
Another Take: What is fueling South Korea’s political drama?
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on January 14th, 2025. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed. Impeachment proceedings against suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol are in full swing. Au ... Show More
23m 15s
Mar 2022
'Squid Game' Squad — Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae, Jung Ho-yeon, Park Hae-soo & Anupam Tripathi
In front of an audience at Chapman University, the principal team behind the Korean dystopian dramedy which has become Netflix's most popular TV show ever — creator/writer/director/EP Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae (“Gi-hun”), Jung Ho-yeon (“Sae-byeok”), Park Hae-soo (“Sa ... Show More
1h 16m
Apr 2023
The Rise of K-Pop, and the role L.A.'s Korean community has played, Plus an immersive production of The Tempest drops the audience right in the middle of the Shakespearean Shipwreck, And today's headl
In today's local news: The LA County COVID Health Emergency order expires, hate flyers in Glendale, a mental health crisis in LA County jails, and Long Beach reopens the Queen Mary.
Then, a new immersive production of The Tempest at the Shakespeare Center LA invites the audience ... Show More
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