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Representations of the 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' in TV drama
Journal of Popular Narrative
2011,
(25), pp.7-40
DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2011..25.001
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
DOI : 10.18856/jpn.2011..25.001
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
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This is the paper about the representation patterns of 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' in the TV drama and its representation by focusing on the changes, the urban poor in Korea in the industrialization process of the life. Especially it reveals how their lives changed gone, in the process of urban redevelopment projects as the core to the development of Gangnam, Seoul, '70s And '80s, While the reappearance of such historical experiences as a medium to illuminate the role of television drama writing. Since the early 1980s, 'Daldongne [shantytowns]', the urban poor housing space, was emerged in the Korea TV Drama as the main stage of the soap opera. Previously, it was was difficult to explore a television soap opera emerged of the urban poor more than middle-class. Therefore, the highlands in the outskirts of Seoul, the lower class housing, the breakthrough of 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' as a main stage in a daily soap opera was the advent of. TV drama <Daldongne> was enthusiastic response to be obtained as 'a drama give comport to ordinary people, and soothe the sorrow of them. <Daldongne> had been preaching the hope constantly "Live hard, would be better soon". It was met successfully a common desire of Korea and a number of community members in the early 1980s. Their desire was rising hierarchy from Outskirts' shantytowns of the urban underclass to the middle class. However by the end of the '80s, 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' had not anymore be presented as a space for hope. In the urban redevelopment process as the core of Gangnam development, residents were alienated from the shantytowns, and they were driven further impoverished and their lives has become exhausted. The hope "We can live well in the drama like them" will be tightly integrated picture has more than a mirage. TV drama <The Moon of Seoul>, 1994, was representation to the structure of desire to reproduce and changed perception of the residents of these shantytowns. <The Moon of Seoul>(1994) is similar to <Daldongne>(1980) in the sense that made the narrative desire of rising hierarchy and setting in urban slums at the highlands, but it seems significantly different patterns to achieve their desire to choose a way of life. Their own perception for 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' in a community space was changed. Members of the shantytowns in the <The Moon of Seoul> lied to deceive each other and chasing pitched fights before being chased. 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' was not any more like a cozy home. In conclusion, 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' in <Daldongne>(1980) was the space of fantasy which were provided the myth of the rosy hopes for the future, but in <The Moon of Seoul>(1994) it had been changed as the resistance space that cause cracks Fantasy of the industrialization and modernizationin. The changes of representations of 'Daldongne [shantytowns]' in TV drama, tell us ultimately, South Korea's capitalist industrialization has made a lot poverty out and has been isolated them, destroying their lives.
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