Screen/Society--Cine-East: "Paradox of the Post-Cold War in Asia" series--"Welcome to Dongmakgol"

Film Screening: "Welcome to Dongmakgol" (Kwang-Hyun Park, 2005, 133 min, South Korea, in Korean and English w/ English subtitles, Color, DVD) --Set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950, the film chronicles accounts of the soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, who find themselves in a secluded village, its residents largely unaware of the outside world, including the war. It was South Korea's official entry for the foreign language film category of the Academy Awards in 2005, and at the time the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time. // Co-sponsored by the Korea Forum. // -- Watch trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvneuCPg9H0 // About the PARADOX OF THE POST_COLD WAR IN ASIA Film and Workshop Series: When *was* the Cold War in Asia? Are we now living in a Post-Cold War world? Reframing these questions from the perspectives of the Koreas, Taiwan, and Okinawa, the series illuminates new ways of seeing the legacies of unending wars and impasses in the region today.