TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooking love in Asia
T2 - Food, belonging and the making of a multicultural family on Korean film and television
AU - Song, Myoung Sun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - For the last decade, South Korea-a nation that has called itself danil minjok, a phrase that means ethnically homogenous and racially distinctive-has been transitioning from a homogenous country to a multicultural one. This article focuses on the depiction of the ethnic female other in Korean media, more specifically on that of marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. It analyses two Korean media texts, the film Punch (Lee, 2011) and the television programme Love in Asia (2005-15), specifically around scenes depicting food: marriage migrants preparing food, cooking food, eating food, sharing food, etc. How does food function as sociocultural practices in the exploration of migration and the formation of identities for female marriage migrants? This article argues that Korean film and television articulates a rather limited multicultural discourse as part of its national identity, most notably in the depiction of marriage migrants as mothers who are required to actively produce and consume Korean food. In doing so, the article demonstrates that while media depictions of marriage migrants provide a window onto the transitional process of questioning what a Korean family is, it currently remains very limited and ambivalent.
AB - For the last decade, South Korea-a nation that has called itself danil minjok, a phrase that means ethnically homogenous and racially distinctive-has been transitioning from a homogenous country to a multicultural one. This article focuses on the depiction of the ethnic female other in Korean media, more specifically on that of marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. It analyses two Korean media texts, the film Punch (Lee, 2011) and the television programme Love in Asia (2005-15), specifically around scenes depicting food: marriage migrants preparing food, cooking food, eating food, sharing food, etc. How does food function as sociocultural practices in the exploration of migration and the formation of identities for female marriage migrants? This article argues that Korean film and television articulates a rather limited multicultural discourse as part of its national identity, most notably in the depiction of marriage migrants as mothers who are required to actively produce and consume Korean food. In doing so, the article demonstrates that while media depictions of marriage migrants provide a window onto the transitional process of questioning what a Korean family is, it currently remains very limited and ambivalent.
KW - family
KW - food
KW - Korean film
KW - Korean television
KW - marriage migrants
KW - multiculturalism
KW - national identity
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U2 - 10.1386/macp.15.2.197_1
DO - 10.1386/macp.15.2.197_1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073301121
VL - 15
SP - 197
EP - 211
JO - International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
JF - International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics
SN - 1740-8296
IS - 2
ER -