Movie Minorities – Transnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema Chung

Movie MinoritiesTransnational Rights Advocacy and South Korean Cinema\nAuthor(s): Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978809659, 978-1978809659\nSynopsis\nRights advocacy has become a prominent facet of South Korea's increasingly transnational motion picture output, especially following the 1998 presidential inauguration of Kim Dae-jung, a former political prisoner and victim of human rights abuses who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000. Today it is not unusual to see a big-budget production about the pursuit of social justice or the protection of civil liberties contending for the top spot at the box office. With that cultural shift has come a diversification of film subjects, which range from undocumented workers' rights to the sexual harassment experienced by women to high-school bullying to the struggles among people with disabilities to gain inclusion wit.