Suturing the Nation in South Korean Historical Television Medical Dramas

Kai Khiun Liew

doi:10.1007/s10912-019-09586-6

Suturing the Nation in South Korean Historical Television Medical Dramas

Kai Khiun Liew

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Using the 2000-2010 South Korean historical medical dramas Heo Jun (The Way of Medicine), Dae Jang Geum (Jewel in the Palace), and Jejoongwon (The Hospital) as case studies, this article examines televisual reimaginations of Korean medical modernity as (re)interpretative popular culture texts. Particularly in the areas of the anatomical sciences and surgery, modern medicine’s emancipatory potentials in these productions are set semi-fictitiously in pre-modern Joseon historical contexts. Dramaturgically challenging entrenched social hierarchies and ossified cultural taboos of Institutionalized Confucianism, these dramas’ progressive physician-protagonists emphasize the universality and impartiality of medical knowledge in what is herein termed as Generative Confucianism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	193-205
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Medical Humanities
Volume	41
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09586-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Generative-institutionalized Confucianism
Medical dramas

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Suturing the Nation in South Korean Historical Television Medical Dramas

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