@article{ART003371697},
author={KIMHARIN},
title={Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories},
journal={International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)},
year={2026},
volume={23},
number={23},
pages={60-81}
TY - JOUR
AU - KIMHARIN
TI - Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories
JO - International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
PY - 2026
VL - 23
IS - 23
PB - Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
SP - 60
EP - 81
AB - This study examines how everyday suffering in the 1980s is reconstructed as a memory of “hardship endured together” through relationships beyond the family in Boyhood (Coupang Play, 2023) and A Hundred Memories (JTBC, 2025), while also exploring the ambivalence of this reconstruction. Unlike earlier retro narratives centered on family and neighborhood, these series foreground peer and coworker relationships in male-centered school and female- centered labor spaces. This study conceptualizes relationships based on shared experience and mutual choice, through which care, protection, and mutual aid are practiced, as “intimacy beyond the family,” and defines the transformation of shared suffering into memories of communal bonds as the “communalization of hardship.” Boyhood, set in 1989, transforms the humiliation of school violence into comedy and delayed revenge, presenting peer solidarity as a means of survival and restored recognition. A Hundred Memories, moving between 1982 and 1989, reconstructs friendship within a female labor community through separation, class disparities, and reunion, while redistributing care across biological families, coworkers, and non-biological families. These distinct modes are termed “recognition-restoring consolation” and “relationship- sustaining consolation.” Despite their differences, both narratives converge in “relational closure,” privileging relational compensation over unresolved structural conflicts. Their affirmative remembrance of endured hardship consequently reduces attention to violent hierarchies, exploitative labor, and class inequality. The nostalgia of these series thus emerges as an ambivalent cultural form that responds to the relational deficits of the 2020s while simultaneously deferring structural critique.
KW - Boyhood;A Hundred Memories;nostalgia for the 1980s;intimacy beyond the family;communalization of hardship;relational closure
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KIMHARIN. (2026). Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 23(23), 60-81.
KIMHARIN. 2026, "Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories", International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), vol.23, no.23 pp.60-81.
KIMHARIN "Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 23.23 pp.60-81 (2026) : 60.
KIMHARIN. Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories. 2026; 23(23), 60-81.
KIMHARIN. "Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 23, no.23 (2026) : 60-81.
KIMHARIN. Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 23(23), 60-81.
KIMHARIN. Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL). 2026; 23(23) 60-81.
KIMHARIN. Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories. 2026; 23(23), 60-81.
KIMHARIN. "Intimacy Beyond the Family and Its Ambivalence in Nostalgia for the 1980s: Focusing on Boyhood and A Hundred Memories" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 23, no.23 (2026) : 60-81.
