@article{ART001884238},
author={PARK Yuhee},
title={Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2014},
number={44},
pages={101-137},
doi={10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101}
TY - JOUR
AU - PARK Yuhee
TI - Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 44
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 101
EP - 137
SN - 1225-7729
AB - This study reflects on the representational aspect of “the Pacific War" as Asia-Pacific theatre of “World War II” in South Korean films after 1945. The Pacific War was not a main subject matter in South Korean films. The Pacific War served as a marriage obstacle in melodramas, as background in action genre, or a destiny set to fade away like the caste system in a pre-modern society or natural disasters.
‘The Korean War’ fundamentally played a definitive role in such exclusion. The national division that took strong root after the Korean War suppressed even more memories and made them fade into the mists of history. The Pacific War across mainland China, Myanmar, India, and Manchuria was recorded in personal memoirs or reconstructed with imagination in novels or films.
The imaginary reconstruction was limited in films because they were strictly censored by the government or policies as they were a medium with a great ripple effect. It is in this context that the Pacific War could be reenacted just in the form of melodrama or action films which were genre films considered as an entertaining consumer good.
KW - Action Genre;Censorship;Desertion Narrative of Student Soldiers;Heonhaetan Knows;Korean War;Marriage Obstacle;Melodrama;National Division;Representation;Sorrowful Youth;Sunset in the River Sarbin;the Pacific War;World War II
DO - 10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
ER -
PARK Yuhee. (2014). Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 44, 101-137.
PARK Yuhee. 2014, "Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.44, pp.101-137. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee "Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 44 pp.101-137 (2014) : 101.
PARK Yuhee. Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films. 2014; 44 : 101-137. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee. "Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.44(2014) : 101-137.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee. Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 44, 101-137. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee. Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2014; 44 101-137. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee. Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films. 2014; 44 : 101-137. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
PARK Yuhee. "Representation of the Pacific War in South Korean Films" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.44(2014) : 101-137.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2014..44.101
