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Kim Byung-ik's Discourse on Popular Culture and Cultural Democratic Consciousness of 4.19 Generation
Journal of Popular Narrative
2014, 20(3),
pp.309-338
DOI :10.18856/jpn.2014.20.3.010
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
DOI :10.18856/jpn.2014.20.3.010
Publisher : The Association of Popular Narrative
Research Area : Interdisciplinary Research
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Kim Byung-ik's Discourse on Popular Culture and Cultural Democratic Consciousness of 4.19 Generation Song, Eun-Young (Yonsei University)This essay was intended to get over the established frame on 1970s' literary fields and 4.19 generation's identity and directivity by analyzing one of the main members of Literature and Intellectual, Kim Byung-ik's discourse on popular culture. His essays and articles on popular culture in late 1960s and 1970s, showed a new perspective on Literature and Intellectual dealt with in terms of elitism, conservatism and literature-centrism. Although he agreed with the ruling discourse to criticize popular culture's vulgarity and lewdness, he supported the Youth Culture based on popular culture because it helped to realize the more freedom and equality. He didn't separate popular culture's vulgarity with elites' commercialism. His announcement that popular culture would help a development of cultural democracy, proved that 4.19 generation's cultural directivity stemmed from their desire to realize political freedom and social equality.
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