Álvaro Trigo Maldonado

Universidad de Salamanca · Department of Modern Languages

During the last years, the Korean language has been gaining popularity worldwide as a second language. This is partly due to the international success of the so-called Korean wave or hallyu-related cultural products. This increase of interest in learning the language has produced a new market for Korean language books, and the past years have seen...

This paper analyzes the information contained in a variety of travelogues written prior to and after the Japanese annexation of Korea to provide a better understanding on how Westerners perceived the colonial rule. In order to do so quotes on specific topics such as the socio-political situation of Korea or thetraveler’s perception on both Korean an...

Resumen: El siguiente trabajo realiza un análisis de la representación del intelectual en Ready-made Insaeng de Chae Mansik (1902-1950), una de las figuras clave para la comprensión de la literatura moderna de Corea. Junto al análisis interpretativo en torno a la figura del intelectual se hace uso de un enfoque comparativo para establecer vínculos...

In the past few years, the South Korean film industry has released a growing number of Korean movies set in the colonial period. This essay focuses on how these films deal with the painful memory of occupation. More specifically, the analysis will be centered on two biopics with narratives that differ from what could be argued to be the mainstream...

Cuando reflexionamos sobre la mujer y el agua en un contexto coreano re-sulta inevitable que nos venga a la mente la historia de la sociedad de las haenyeo (해녀) de la isla de Jeju (Corea del Sur). Las haenyeo son buceadoras que desde hace siglos subsisten de las capturas que realizan en el fondo marino. Debido a lo arduo de su labor y a las mayores...

This chapter examines the perspectives of Spanish travelers on colonial Korea, with a primary focus on the accounts of two writers who held opposing ideologies and presented contrasting views on the Japanese occupation of Korea. Introducing these two testimonies together suggest that in certain cases, accounts about East Asia were influenced more b...

El presente artículo analiza las estrategias narrativas utilizadas en dos adaptaciones surcoreanas al cine de obras literarias extranjeras. Las obras seleccionadas han sido los thrillers psicológicos Burning (Lee Changdong, 2018) y La doncella (Park Chan-wook, 2016) basados en obras literarias de Haruki Murakami y Sarah Waters respectivamente. A lo...