Abstract
This study analyzes a process through which university students in Japan and South Korea come to understand the culture of the other country by exchanging comments on a documentary movie “ANNYON SAYONARA (Hello and Goodbye)” which relates to the Asia-Pacific War and Korean colonial rule by Japan. The approach to understand other cultures through movies is called the “Round Table Cinema Method” and is a method whereby individuals with different cultural backgrounds talk about the same movie to discuss “gaps,” “sense of incongruity,” and “internal conflicts” that arise. Through exchanging comments with each other, both countries’ students damaged each other, but this eventually changed and the viewpoint and feeling of the partner became better understood.
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Data collection and analysis for this study were supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. KAKENHI (multi-year fund) Grant Numbers 22,330,190 and 16 K04310, principal investigator Sunah Oh.
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OH, S. Dialogical Exchange Class Using Movies for Mutual Understanding between a Korean and a Japanese University. Integr. psych. behav. 51, 379–390 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-017-9392-8
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