@article{ART003340713},
author={Park Sang Jun},
title={Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang},
journal={The Journal of Korean drama and theatre},
issn={1225-7729},
year={2026},
number={88},
pages={257-299},
doi={10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Sang Jun
TI - Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang
JO - The Journal of Korean drama and theatre
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 88
PB - The Learned Society Of Korean Drama And Theatre
SP - 257
EP - 299
SN - 1225-7729
AB - This study focuses on how Kim Myung-hwa employs the liminal qualities of food to represent various discourses while also opening up points of excess. It examines First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. First, This study explores how she represents discourses surrounding food culture and how these discourses contribute to the construction of characters’ identities. The representation of food consumption reveals commodity fetishism and class stratification inherent in the market economy. The depiction of cooking and eating practices exposes how women’s behavioral norms and bodies are shaped within a patriarchal order. The representation of traditional cuisine demonstrates how nostalgia grounded in motherhood constructs national identity. These discourses are destabilized through violations of food-related norms and the contamination of food itself. Through the carnivalesque and the abject, Kim Myung-hwa enables dynamic possibilities of transformation at both the individual and social levels.
KW - Abject;Carnivalesque;Circuit of Culture;Everyday Life;Food;Kim Myung-hwa;Liminality
DO - 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
ER -
Park Sang Jun. (2026). Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 88, 257-299.
Park Sang Jun. 2026, "Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang", The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, no.88, pp.257-299. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun "Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre 88 pp.257-299 (2026) : 257.
Park Sang Jun. Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. 2026; 88 : 257-299. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun. "Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.88(2026) : 257-299.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun. Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre, 88, 257-299. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun. Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. The Journal of Korean drama and theatre. 2026; 88 257-299. doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun. Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang. 2026; 88 : 257-299. Available from: doi:10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
Park Sang Jun. "Food as a Dramatic Device in the Plays of Kim Myung-hwa: Focusing on First Birthday, Cafe Shinpa, The Fall of Wanggung Restaurant, and Chimhyang" The Journal of Korean drama and theatre no.88(2026) : 257-299.doi: 10.17938/tjkdat.2026..88.257
