KJCKorea
Journal Central

In the 1960s and 1970s, the industrialization and urbanization in both Korea and China resulted in the rapid Rural-Urban Migration. Parents in the rural area left their hometowns behind to help their children to live in comfortable circumstances, just like ordinary people try to move in search of the better life. As a result, the number of children growing up without parents has increased exponentially in rural areas, leading to problems with these children from broken families emerging as social issues. Just as revealing the true nature of society through actual daily lives, the films titled <Ice Bar> and <Bus fare> aims to not only describe the image of rural children growing up in the absence of their parents in loneliness, but also expose inside of social environment surrounding them and fundamental cause of their misfortunes, look forward to creating environment in which children who are left, neglected in the indifference of adults could be loved and raised in the loving home without blind spots of social welfare. This paper discusses the research result of the films <Ice Bar> and <Bus fare> by comparing and analyzing from the point of view of the migration discourse, especially what message they deliver and what social change they try to come up with through the films which illuminate the lives of rural children who had to grow up in solitude in the absence of their parents and also, describe children who tried to keep their hopes alive in adversity and hardship.

Migration, Caring Society, Ice Bar, Bus fare, the absence of father, Rural-Urban Migration