King's College London

From K-pop to Korean television series and cinema, South Korean culture has boasted its popularity both within the East Asian region and across the globe. Since the so-called South Korean film renaissance of the 1990s-2000s until the recent box office mega-hits such as TRAIN OF BUSAN, ALONG THE GODS, and PARASITE, the Korean film industry has been showcasing its versatility through its adapting to the changes of the global film industry and transforming of popular genre conventions. This course surveys the history of post-war Korean cinema since the 1950s to the present, in particular its relationship to urban space and gender, popular genre, trauma and history, and authorship.

This course enables students to explore key concepts in the economics of work and pay, labor market theory, and the theory of personnel economics. Students develop an understanding of how these tools can be used to address theoretical, applied, and policy problems. Students also learn the nature and role of the labor market in the UK. Students master the core concepts of labor economics theory and the theory of personnel economics and then use those theories to analyze real-world labor market phenomena such as how pays are set, why there is wage inequality and unemployment. Students also evaluate the case for the use of the theory in designing reforms of the labor markets.

This course builds upon compulsory level 4 courses with a review of the muscle cell and an understanding of the biochemical processes involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and aminoacids to provide the energy for muscle contraction. It also provides an understanding of how metabolism changes and is regulated in different types of exercise, and the role of nutrition in modulating these changes.