# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Close analysis essay](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/assessments/close-analysis-essay/): A close reading of one week's drama, arguing for a specific claim about what it represents and what it dramatises
- [Final comparative essay](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/assessments/final-essay/): A comparative essay across at least two dramas, arguing for a theme or pattern that runs across the semester
- [Weekly viewing responses](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/assessments/weekly-responses/): Short reactions to each week's drama and its questions, submitted across the semester rather than all at once
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Jewel in the Palace: Korean Food Culture and Traditional Medicine](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-01/): Royal cuisine, Joseon-era medicine, and food as social hierarchy, through the drama that made a court kitchen the setting for a whole society
- [KPop Demon Hunters: K-pop and Korean Popular Culture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-02/): Why K-pop travels, and what its production model reveals about Korean popular culture and identity on a global stage
- [Crash Landing on You: Korean Division, North and South](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-03/): A romance across the DMZ, and what it romanticises about a division that isn't a plot device
- [When Life Gives You Tangerines: Family and Generational Culture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-04/): A multigenerational Jeju family drama, and how duty, marriage, and independence have shifted between generations
- [Coffee Prince: Changing Attitudes Toward Sexuality and Gender](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-05/): A gender-disguise romance from the 2000s, read for what it assumed its audience already believed
- [Misaeng: Incomplete Life and Korean Workplace Culture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-06/): A contract worker at a trading company, and what the show gets right about hierarchy, seniority, and hours
- [SKY Castle: Korea's Education Fever](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-07/): Private tutors, university admissions, and the extremes a satire has to reach to feel exaggerated
- [Mr. Sunshine: Korean Independence and the Colonial Period](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-08/): Late Joseon and the onset of Japanese colonial rule, and what a historical drama is for
- [Reply 1988: Everyday Life in 1980s Korea](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-09/): A working-class Seoul neighbourhood under authoritarian rule, and what nostalgia does to that memory
- [The Art of Sarah: Materialism and Consumer Culture in Korea](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-10/): A counterfeit-luxury scam thriller, and why status goods carry so much weight in the story it tells
- [My ID Is Gangnam Beauty: Plastic Surgery, Beauty Standards, and Appearance](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-11/): A high-school transformation story, and the debates around cosmetic surgery it walks straight into
- [New Recruit: Military Culture in Korea](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/lectures/week-12/): Conscription and barracks life, and why compulsory service sits at the centre of so much everyday Korean masculinity
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [May Rhee](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/people/may-rhee/): Convenor and sole instructor, teaching all twelve weeks from a single drama-by-drama syllabus of her own design.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/policies/): Late work, extensions, academic integrity, and a note on this course's subject matter.
- [Screening 1: Jewel in the Palace](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/01-jewel-in-the-palace/): The opening screening --- royal-kitchen politics, and the first pass at telling a drama's history from its invention
- [Screening 2: KPop Demon Hunters](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/02-kpop-demon-hunters/): A girl group, a monster plot, and the industry underneath both
- [Screening 3: Crash Landing on You](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/03-crash-landing-on-you/): Romance across the DMZ, and the line between a love story and a political argument
- [Screening 4: When Life Gives You Tangerines](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/04-when-life-gives-you-tangerines/): A family across three generations, and what changes underneath a household that doesn't
- [Screening 5: Coffee Prince](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/05-coffee-prince/): A gender-disguise plot from 2007, read for its assumptions rather than its jokes
- [Screening 6: Misaeng](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/06-misaeng/): A contract worker's first year, and the office hierarchy the show renders in close detail
- [Screening 7: SKY Castle](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/07-sky-castle/): A satire of admissions pressure, and the real weight it's exaggerating
- [Screening 8: Mr. Sunshine](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/08-mr-sunshine/): Colonial-period Korea, and the difference between a moving scene and a historical source
- [Screening 9: Reply 1988](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/09-reply-1988/): A neighbourhood's daily life under authoritarian rule, told with more warmth than politics
- [Screening 10: The Art of Sarah](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/10-the-art-of-sarah/): A counterfeit-luxury scam, and what its ease tells us about status and visibility rather than about "materialism" in general
- [Screening 11: My ID Is Gangnam Beauty](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/11-my-id-is-gangnam-beauty/): A transformation story, and the live debate about cosmetic surgery it walks straight into
- [Screening 12: New Recruit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-mayRhee218/sessions/12-new-recruit/): Compulsory service played for comedy, and what the tone choice tells us about a shared national experience