Delicate Hands, Tender Voices, Slender Bodies: Articulating Female Labor through Beauty and Care in the 1960s Taehan News Newsreel.
The article focuses on the portrayal of female labor and femininity in the South Korean newsreel Taehan News during the early Park Chung Hee regime (1961–1979). It analyzes how the state utilized this media to construct a vision of women's roles through categories such as "servicewomen," "wise mothe...
| Published in: | Korean Studies Vol. 49; pp. 122 - 165 |
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University of Hawai'i
2025
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