@article{ART002359884},
author={Sangmi Bae},
title={Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2018},
number={60},
pages={109-138},
doi={10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sangmi Bae
TI - Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2018
VL - null
IS - 60
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 109
EP - 138
SN - 1225-7729
AB - This article examines how militarism influences the representation of labor activism in the 2015 television series, Songkot. Militarism is the basis upon which the sexist division of civil rights in South Korea is constructed, and therefore provides an appropriate methodology to explain gender politics in South Korean society. Even though Songkot’s narrative derives from the struggles by real laborers at a South Korean large supermarket in 2003, its structure is solidified through the trope of militarism. This paper analyzes how militarism in Songkot appears in the drama through the focalization of a labor union organizer who previously served as a platoon commander in the military, including the description of conflicts among workers or between workers and management through anecdotes coming from the organizer’s service period. As a result, this method of portrayal enables the elision of differences between the military, which protects national interests, and the labor movement, which defends class interests, and affirms the pervasive military culture in South Korea. Whereas other recent works of visual media which treat similar struggles to those featured in Songkot represent women workers as equal and active subjects in the fight with the company, and articulate the centrality of gender to the labor movement, I suggest that the representational strategy of Songkot can be considered a backlash or reaction to such progressive reflections on the sexist division of labor and South Korean labor movement.
KW - Labor Movement;Large Supermarket;Militarism;Songkot;Woman Worker
DO - 10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
ER -
Sangmi Bae. (2018). Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 60, 109-138.
Sangmi Bae. 2018, "Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.60, pp.109-138. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae "Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 60 pp.109-138 (2018) : 109.
Sangmi Bae. Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot. 2018; 60 : 109-138. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae. "Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.60(2018) : 109-138.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae. Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 60, 109-138. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae. Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2018; 60 109-138. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae. Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot. 2018; 60 : 109-138. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
Sangmi Bae. "Representation of Labor Movement and Militarism: A Television Series, Songkot" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.60(2018) : 109-138.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2018..60.109
