PARK Yu-hee
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PARK Yu-hee
PARK Yu-hee is Professor in the Department of Creative Writing & Media Studies at Korea University. Her research focuses on Korean film history, particularly its relationship with literature, censorship, and genre. Through critical inquiry, she examines cinematic representation within networks of narrative relations and the broader context of social history. She has published more than sixty scholarly articles, including "The Literary Film and Censorship" (2010), "A Study on 'Censorship' in Context of Pornography" (2015), "How did the Films of IM Kwon-Taek Become a Canon?" (2017), "What was Western Literature in the History of Korean Cinema?" (2020), and "Interrogation Structure of Film Censorship in the 1970s and the Drift of Drive" (2023). Her sole-authored books include Hanguk Yeonghwa Pyosang ui Jido: Korean Film History through 5 Keywords: Family, Nation, Democracy, Women, Art (2019), Seosa ui Sup eseo Hanguk Yeonghwa reul Baraboda: The Rhetoric of Korean Films (2008), Narrative & Media in Digital Era (2005), and 1950s’ Korean Fictions & Rhetoric of Irony (2003). She conceived and served as chief editor of the five-volume collaborative series All about Korean Popular Narrative Genres (Vols. 1–5, 2007–2016), a comprehensive study of five popular narrative genres—melodrama, historical fiction, mystery, comedy, and fantasy. Her co-authored publications include Censorship in the History of Korean Film (2016), Chastity and Obscenity: How Eroticism Works (2018), Sentimental Lee Kwang-soo (2013), and History of the Events of Peace and Reunification during the Democratisation Process and in the Post-Cold War Era (2014). She is currently investigating South Korean cinema between 1966 and 1987, a period during which prior censorship was enforced at the screenplay stage, and is completing a book on the relationship between cinematic representation and censorship.
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