The GKF will host screenings of Korean films throughout the year. The first film of 2022 is 50 Chuseok.

Directed by Tamae Garateguy
Argentina / 82 min / 2019

Date: March 15-17, The members will be given the link when they sign up thru Eventbrite (they have 48 hour window to watch the film)

Post Q and A Session with the panel: We will invite a panel (expert on the issue) to discuss the film on March 17 at 7 pm (via zoom).

Chang Sung Kim(see attached), a Korean-Argentinian actor in Buenos Aires, returns to South Korea for the first time in 48 years. The occasion was to shoot a documentary to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants to Argentina. As Chang explores South Korea, a country he left as a small child, the documentary turns into an intimate and introspective portrayal of Chang’s childhood memory, family ties, and cross-cultural identity.

About the Speaker

Kyeyoung Park 박계영 is professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA:

I am a sociocultural anthropologist.  The question of inequality, my life-long scholastic interest, is naturally tied to questions of social justice, social change, and social movement.  Accordingly, I heavily focus on culture in motion and the migration of people. Particularly I concentrate on cases of displaced people and their relation to structures of political economy and critical race and comparative ethnic studies and now, in a broad sense, their relationship to transnationalism and globalization.  I am also the author of a book, LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest (2019), published by Lexington Books.  LA Rising develops neo-Marxist scholarship with intersectional analysis by examining multi-racial/ethnic tensions in South Central LA.  I define axes of inequality in the U.S. as they relate to race, citizenship, class, and culture.  My main objective is to explore how these axes of inequality have made an indelible impact on racial minorities and their relationship with each other.

My first book, The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997), by Cornell University Press, is the winner of the Association for Asian American Studies’ Book Award.  This book examined why Koreans gravitate to small businesses and demonstrated how the structural imperatives of this process lead to transformations of concepts around gender, kinship, family, politics, and religion, and, more broadly, the transformation of cultural beliefs and ideologies.  Besides these two monographs, I have co-written and co-edited three more books: Korean Americans’ ethnic relationship in Los Angeles; Korean American Economy; 태평양을 넘어서: 글로벌시대 재미한인의 삶과 활동 (Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age).  In addition, I edited/co-edited three special issues of peer-reviewed journals: Second Generation Asian Americans’ Ethnic Identity (Amerasia Journal 1999) and How Do Asian Americans Create Places?  Los Angeles and Beyond (Amerasia Journal 2008); Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea (Urban anthropology 2014).  My current research projects are about the Korean immigrant communities in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay and the second generation Korean American Transnationalism.  I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University (1998-99) and a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation (1997-98).  I also served on the National Advisory Board of a multi-year national public education project sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on Race and Human Variation.

About the Moderator

Kelly Famuliner serves as the Consultant for Ragtag Film Society’s Community Partnership & Education Team where she provides guidance and support on implementation of Ragtag Film Society’s organization-wide Community Engagement Plan; develops and leads media literacy trainings for new Community Partnerships & Education staff; and advises on best practices for community engagement and audience development for community-based initiatives at Ragtag Cinema and the True/False Film Fest. She holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Missouri and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Missouri.