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The Petit Bourgeois-ship of Dailytoon and the Beyond-the-Border Narrative of Cripple Taste [Byeongmat] Comics

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2016, (62), pp.273-300
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 12, 2016
  • Accepted : August 1, 2016

KWON KYONG MI 1

1성신여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Korean webtoons have made a remarkable growth during the past 10 years. And in recent years, Korean webtoons have attracted special attention because of their role of covering the story of the visual contents industry. Research related to the trend of Korean webtoons is largely divided into social and cultural analysis and Korean webtoons related to the type of narrative analysis of the media dimension. This study is significant because it tends to provide clues that can significantly examine the present situations of Korean webtoons. The daily-toons reflect the day-to-day self-narratives of the author and has the characteristics of a growth narrative. In the early period daily-toons, the authors confessed shyly their surplus lives but now they tell their love, marriage, and parenting to readers. For 10 years the authors have changed their life style from that of surplus in their 20s to that of petit bourgeois in their 30s. And it’s true that the author’s narrative is the ‘growth narrative’. But the reader’s daily life was not that of the ‘growth narrative’ unlike the author. Rather, reader’s life has regressed for 10 years. Meanwhile the cripple taste [byeongmat] comics were very interesting. Usual narrative has the order of “introduction, development, turn, and conclusion,” but the cripple taste [byeongmat] comics are equipped with the structure of ‘introduction, development, turn, and cripple taste [byeongmat]’. Current trends in research related to the cripple taste [byeongmat] comics is to define the characteristics of the particular structural form. These studies are based on the premise that the cripple taste [byeongmat] comics are endowed with stocked distinctive structure and format. However, this paper attempts to analyze that the idea of its specific structure and format of the cripple taste [byeongmat] is just re-territorialization of previous narratives.

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