Class Overview:
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Name of Course |
Korean Aesthetics |
Lecturer |
Hanna Kim |
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Subjects |
Domestic and Foreign University Students and General Persons |
T.A. |
Chae-yeon Hong & William Gilbert |
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Field |
Humanities |
Difficulty |
Beginner |
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Summary |
This course introduces Korean philosophy and Koreans’ speculation, projected in K-culture and Korean cultural contents, which has attracted global attention. It verifies that Korean culture can acquire not only general but also unique characteristics based on Korea’s own philosophy, and also considers a role the Korean philosophy can play for the continuous development and extension of K-culture. |
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Learning Objectives |
1. Learners who take this course would be able to verify the general and unique characteristics of K-culture and explain how Korean philosophy contributes to them. 2. Learners who take this course would be able to verify the historical, geographical, and cultural characteristics of Korea and broaden their understanding of Koreans’ values. 3. Learners who take this course can think about how ‘tradition’ can be succeeded and developed into the current ‘living tradition’ through the relationship between K-culture and Korean philosophy. |
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Week |
Title |
Contents |
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Week 1 |
Intro to Aesthetics and Korean Aesthetics |
1) Introduction to Aesthetics 2) Introduction to Korean Aesthetics |
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Week 2 |
Comparative Approaches to Korean Aesthetics |
1) Challenges of Comparative Aesthetics 2) Methods of Comparative Aesthetics 3) Rewards of Comparative Aesthetics |
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Week 3 |
Natural Beauty peculiar to Korea: from Nature and Beauty of Neo-Kantianism |
1) Introduction to natural beauty in Korean Aesthetics 2) Natural Beauty and Nature in Korean Tradition 3) Natural Beauty in the 20th century |
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Week 4 |
Korean painting |
1) Eight Views of Xiaoxiang 2) The Nine-bend Stream of Mt. Wuyi 3) True View Scenery Painting, |
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Week 5 |
Korean Narrative Tradition |
1) The concept of Korean literature - The concept of fiction 2) The gap between Chinese fable tradition and Koran fable tradition and Buddhist influences on the development of the Korean fable tradition - Greek fable tradition and rhetoric 3) Korean fable tradition |
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Week 6 |
Korean Art and Social Change |
1) An ancient idea that art would be relevant to moral improvement 2) About the Joseon Dynasty 3) In the 21st century, Korean artistic productions |
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Week 7 |
Korean Art and Morality |
1) Philosophical Background of Korean Artistic Practices: Confucian Moral Self-cultivation 2) Double Desires for Self-enjoyment 3) The Pleasure of Self |
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Week 8 |
The Aesthetics of Fun: ‘Sinmyŏng' (神明) in Korean Popular Culture |
1) Releasing Han through Nori 2) Eliciting Hŭng through Nori 3) Showing the clip to the class 4) Hybridity and Creativity |
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Week 9 |
Group Discussions by Themes |
1) Art as a tool 2) Nature in Korean Art |
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Week 10 |
Q&A Interview |
The Role of Imperfection in Korean Aesthetics |