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Study on the Status and the Meaning of the 'Marginal Man' in Dramas on the Division of Korea

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1영남대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the 'marginal man' featured in dramas on the division of Korea. Marginal man is located in marginal areas which involves cultural conflict. As is well known, Korea is situated in the opposition of ideology between North and South Korea. So in this situation marginal man is what he is not because he is not willing to break with his past but because the new society in which he now sought to find a place rejects him. Such a person is featured in San-bul by Cha Beomseok and Chilsanri by Lee Kangbaek. In San-bul a man who acted as North Korean partisan seeks refuge, but there is no place for him in the oppositional situation. In Chilsanri seven brothers whose fathers are North Korean partisans suffer the split between the aspiration for 'humanity' and the actual socio-historical experience of being treated as sub-human. Meanwhile, there is another marginal man who is willing to stand hardships to unite two countries. Such a person is featured in Homo Separatus by Lee Kangbaek and Abeojibada by Lee Ban. In that work, he is frustrated by the anti-unifying situation, and the character is not so well featured in this work. But Mogigindusaramidaewha by Park Joyeol is interpreted as the work of possibility of unification by the trial of the marginal man.

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