Cross-Cultural Traffic
This past Wednesday I attended a panel discussion entitled, Cross Cultural Traffic: Toying with Brands, Borders and Bootlegs.
It was hosted by The Korea Society and was a lively talk on and about Korean Toys, their origins, how they interrelate with Japanese, American, and their own Korean Pop Cultures.
The panel consisted of Eric Nakamura (publisher of Giant Robot Magazine), Joshua Bernard (editor of CollectionDX.com), and The Korea Society’s Seho Kim (creative director).
I think Eric summed it up best on his GR blog:
“The robots and such brought out a generation of creatives. Imagine a filmmaker like Joon Ho Bong, who made the Host. Did he watch monster films as a kid? Did he play with toys? Of course he must have. The geeks who collected toys are now in power at creative places, and look at what they’ve brought forward? A new world of creative minds.”
Of course, I eagerly took down notes and snapped a few pics. Enjoy!
![Indy Mogul (alt) poster [comp]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/3027776092_f8c8836fc0.jpg)
![Threadbanger poster [comp]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/3027662798_915b90d3fb.jpg)
![Next New Networks INKY poster [comp]](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2878798303_57ff8570d3.jpg)
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On May 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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On June 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
awesome!!!!!
On June 11th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Thanks for viewing the creative output of South Korea from the 60-90’s with an open mind.
I read in your pic, the caption of someone saying ‘there was no context’ and they were just big robots.
That’s cool but alas, as long as people are going to compare and say things like “that’s a just a cheap knockoff” then there has to be a context so that people can understand. Very young kids don’t seem to care what things look similar- ah, to have the perspective of a child.
Anyway, it was good to read about the topic.
Cheers