kdrama1-1, Exercise 3: Scope and sources

Model answer:

The course covers film and television together, because the same people, money and censorship cross between them. Its focus is South Korea, and before the 1945/1948 division it covers the cinema of the whole peninsula, since there was one film industry. K-pop, webtoons and festivals have their own planned courses and appear only where a drama or film depends on them, and politics is covered by the Korean Politics courses, with state control discussed only as it shaped films. North Korean film gets one short, factual section based on openly available sources, and no more.

Three habits for a subject where much of the record is lost: (1) separate what survives from what is described, since a plot summary of a lost film is a description and not the film; (2) treat "first" with care, because several "first" labels are disputed; (3) watch the hedges ("widely considered", "said to", "thought to", "believed to"), which show a claim has not been confirmed.