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A Study on Tradition Discourses in Korean Modern Drama during 1990s

Back Hyun Mi 1

1전남대학교

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The concept about tradition has changed with transition of the society. In this study, I revolved over tradition discourses brought in Korean modern drama during 1990s, considering the subjects, the objects. the connection with culture theories. As cold war tensions had eased after the end of 1980s, the economic globalization and cultural globalization became general. The tradition recognition during 1990s was prevalent in the global world, and new culture theories such as asian-value theory, postmodernism, inter-culturalism were introduced. There were many subjects discussing what would be valuable traditional performance and how they could be recreated. I grouped them into three, such as scholars specializing traditional culture, the culture policies of government, and theater critics. Mutual interchange and influence among those subjects became usual during 1990s, in contrast to those subjects often had been mutually exclusive until 1980s. The unique object given attention by subjects during 1990s was the confucian culture. Scholars focused on not only Gut, Pansori, and various rituals but also Confucian traditional culture. The culture policy of Korean government stressed on restoring and cultivating Confucian culture. Theater critics also discussed using confucian tradition as a new recreation of tradition in the writer-director Lee Yun Taek's works. Asian value theory focusing on modern value of Asian tradition performance became more reasonable, with the rapid increase of cultural interchange between Korea and other Asian countries. Postmodernism gave the perspective in recreating tradition as a sort of modernity, overcoming the west-oriented modernity. Inter-culturalism also was scrutinized in the end of 1990s. That was compared with culture-nationalism and culture-imperialism.

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