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The Korean Association of Audiovisual Preservation (KAAP) and the Institute of Information and Archival Science in Hankuk University of Foreign Studies are going to organize a screening of the feature film <Let's Meet at Walkerhill (Wokeohileseo Mannapsida>(1966) and a special talk session on Hallyu and Korean culture curation.

In the classic film < Let's Meet at Walkerhill> (1966), directed by Han Hyung-mo, a Korean music movie that allows you to understand the prototype of movies and popular songs that are a big part of the so-called "Korean Wave" and the popular culture of the 1960s. In the 1960s popular music landscape of South Korea, various genres were tried, including standard pop, rock, and folk songs, in addition to trot, foreign-style music, etc. You can meet these in the film. The Walkerhill Hotel was built in 1963 for foreigners, including American soldiers in South Korea. At the time, the Walkerhill Show was a venue for high-end shows with a sophisticated revolving stage. However, in order to showcase a wide variety of music and shows, popular music shows were held in various locations such as KBS TV show studio, music hall in Myeongdong, where young people used to go, and the hotel nightclub. For more information of the film, please refer to the film information in KMDB.

After the screening, a special talk on Hallyu (Korean Wave) and Audiovisual Heritage will be followed. Since 2022, Korean Wave-related exhibitions have been held in Korea and abroad. In September 2022, the Victoria & Albert Museum in the United Kingdom opened the "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" exhibition, and other national and public museums in Korea are also planning related exhibitions. In this event, we will meet two young curators working in National Museums in South Korea will be speaking about their own experiences. through conversations with the curators who participated in the process of curation, we would like to consider the audiovisual cultural heritage that should be preserved, protected, and transmitted within the cultural heritage system. We expect main issues and its future directions on the preservation and public uses of Hallyu related items as audiovisual heritage in South Korea.

Moderator: Eujeong Zhang / (Professor, Dankook University) Panels: Gi-Jun, Kwon (Curator, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History) Hunyoung Na (Curator, National Folk Museum of Korea)