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The purpose of this thesis is to reflect the comprehensive meaning of a TV drama, <Reasonable Love> through the metonymic and metaphorical reading about the drama. This dram is composed of 4 main epics: the epic about Il-li and Hui-tae, the epic about Il-li and Kim Jun, the epic about Il-li, Hui-tae and Kim Jun, and the epic about Il-li and her husband's family members. These main epics are consumed by TV viewers as a metonymy about unfaithfulness and one's husband's home. As the main epics focused on such negative meanings and were also consumed so, then the characters' love or growth story in the drama were hard to be sympathized and understood by TV viewers. However, such epics were also a great chain metaphor about the 'Fertility'. Seen from the metaphorical viewpoint, Kim Jun is Il-li and Hui-tae's child. In other words, due to the existence of Kim Jun, Il-li and Hui-tae eventually found their positions as wife and husband, respectively, and formed the second triangle to be delivered. In that there was not any birth in the drama, its metaphor about the 'Fertility' was a reflection on Korean society's phenomenon avoiding from giving a birth. Seen through a complex reading of metonymic and metaphorical expressions, this drama was a meaningful text figuratively showing that giving a birth in modern society is being replaced with adjacent other things like a unfaithfulness or one's husband's home. So this dram delivers the message that a love without men is impossible and only when a couple admit each other and become a true two, then giving a birth will be possible to us. This thesis expects that the above discussion may become a small clue for changing and advancing people's ways appreciating dramas.

TV Drama, <Reasonable Love>, Metonymy, Metaphor, Unfaithfulness, ‘Fertility’