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A college girl in 1970s was a sort of symbol. Unlike factory girls, housemaids and hostess-escorts, which appeared after industrialization of 1970s, college girls reminded people of those from rich households above middle class. This is involved in many movies of 1970s with college girls heroins. College girls formed a certain image in movies, novels and TV shows. The basis of popularity of the movie <Winter Woman>, directed by Hosun Kim in 1975, was the prejudice of college girls. Eehwa, the main character of the movie, expresses a sexual aberration, which is the opposite image that the public had for college girls. She has rich middle class family and high education, which reflect her exclusive image, but she is willing to offer her body. Her behavior shows people's secret desires and emotion structure of 1970s. What is important is Eehwa's sexual eccentricity is mostly for men(others)'s desire rather than her own desire, so she is called “sex girl”. In a patriarchal society, she can be viewed as a sex girl, but in her desire's prospective, it is more like hysterical desire. By giving permanent loss to others, she finds value of existence. Her ironic desire of finding her existence by becoming the object of desire is closely related to the public's emotion structure in 1970s. In the environment of post-modernization and harsh dictatorship, what the public of those days were required was to become hysterical main agents who could be satisfied by becoming the object. The box office record of 600 thousands is the evidence that shows the movie communicates with the emotion structure and reflects the desire of the public of the days. Eventually, Eehwa is ideal and reproduction of the public of 1970s.

college girls, Mise-en-Scène, psychological disorder, hysterical, lack, object, suppression, desire, emotion structure