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A study on the transformation of historical records into cultural contents in the webtoon, Joseonwangjosiltok

Bohyun Kim 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

As the pop culture industry expands, it continually demands the supply of contents. Historical records are a source to meet this demand. Webtoons, which form a flow of popular culture, are actively accepting historical records. The webtoon Joseonwangjosiltok has a unique aspect as a historical narrative. This webtoon portrays the daily lives of the kings of Joseon by using the communication method called messenger. This discussion examines the narrative devices and the discourse devices exposed in the text and studies how historical records are transformed into popular cultural contents. What embody the unique narrative of Joseonwangjosiltok are a linguistic device and a visual device which form the character of a person and event. These devices tend to personalize public and historical things. It is also the textual, spatial and narrative devices that embody the discourse characteristics, which make the history records recognized as the present, not the past. The text constitutes historical events reinterpreted from a modern perspective by involving the public characteristics in historical records through those devices. To interpret them from the point of view of the current readers, which is one of the ways in which the Joseonwangjosiltok embraces history as a modern culture, and it is a new possibility of transforming historical records into cultural contents.

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