Suturing the nation in South Korean historical television medical dramas

Using the 2000-2010 South Korean historical medical dramas Heo Jun (The Way of Medicine), Dae Jang Geum (Jewel in the Palace), and Jejoongwon (The Hospital) as case studies, this article examines televisual reimaginations of Korean medical modernity as (re)interpretative popular culture texts. Parti...

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Main Author: Liew, Kai Khiun
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1610542022-08-12T08:10:12Z Suturing the nation in South Korean historical television medical dramas Liew, Kai Khiun Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Humanities::Drama Medical Dramas Confucian Using the 2000-2010 South Korean historical medical dramas Heo Jun (The Way of Medicine), Dae Jang Geum (Jewel in the Palace), and Jejoongwon (The Hospital) as case studies, this article examines televisual reimaginations of Korean medical modernity as (re)interpretative popular culture texts. Particularly in the areas of the anatomical sciences and surgery, modern medicine's emancipatory potentials in these productions are set semi-fictitiously in pre-modern Joseon historical contexts. Dramaturgically challenging entrenched social hierarchies and ossified cultural taboos of Institutionalized Confucianism, these dramas' progressive physician-protagonists emphasize the universality and impartiality of medical knowledge in what is herein termed as Generative Confucianism. 2022-08-12T08:10:11Z 2022-08-12T08:10:11Z 2020 Journal Article Liew, K. K. (2020). Suturing the nation in South Korean historical television medical dramas. Journal of Medical Humanities, 41(2), 193-205. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09586-6 1041-3545 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161054 10.1007/s10912-019-09586-6 31848841 2-s2.0-85076897926 2 41 193 205 en Journal of Medical Humanities © 2019 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
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Liew, Kai Khiun
Suturing the nation in South Korean historical television medical dramas
description Using the 2000-2010 South Korean historical medical dramas Heo Jun (The Way of Medicine), Dae Jang Geum (Jewel in the Palace), and Jejoongwon (The Hospital) as case studies, this article examines televisual reimaginations of Korean medical modernity as (re)interpretative popular culture texts. Particularly in the areas of the anatomical sciences and surgery, modern medicine's emancipatory potentials in these productions are set semi-fictitiously in pre-modern Joseon historical contexts. Dramaturgically challenging entrenched social hierarchies and ossified cultural taboos of Institutionalized Confucianism, these dramas' progressive physician-protagonists emphasize the universality and impartiality of medical knowledge in what is herein termed as Generative Confucianism.
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