Destination Hong Kong : the geopolitics of South Korean espionage films in the 1960s

• Main Author: Lee, Sangjoon
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Cold War; Korean Cinema; Espionage
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156066; http://doi.org/10.1353/jks.2017.0016
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As the apparent progeny of Cold War politics in the West, espionage films witnessed unprecedented popularity around the globe in the 1960s. With the success of Dr. No (1962) and Goldfinger (1964)—along with French, Italian, and German copycats—in Asia, film industries in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, an...