@article{ART001480385},
author={Choi Jung},
title={A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan},
journal={Korean Language & Literature},
issn={1229-1730},
year={2010},
number={74},
pages={613-631}
TY - JOUR
AU - Choi Jung
TI - A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan
JO - Korean Language & Literature
PY - 2010
VL - null
IS - 74
PB - Korean Language & Literature
SP - 613
EP - 631
SN - 1229-1730
AB - A playwright Jeong, Wi Sin(鄭義信) was born in 1957 in Japan. In 1993, he, who won the Gisidakunio, the most authoritative play prize in Japan with 「The Terayama(寺山)」 and won the grand prize in Asahi Stage Prize Award with a Korean-and-Japanese-made 「Yakkiniqque Dragon」, is a very well-known playwright in both Japan and Korea. Jeong, Wi Sin who played not only as a playwright but also a scenario writer and a director is regarded as a writer who clearly imprinted existence of Korean Japanese writers like Yu, Mi Ri on both Korea and Japan.
His works show life of Japanese Koreans who cannot but live as an outsider in Japanese society. However, Jeong, Wi Sin who defined himself as ‘Zainichi(Korean Japanese)’ and ‘minority’ is a writer with his own unique skills different from previous generations in that he draws identity of Japanese Koreans with poetic lyricism and personal imagism instead of ethnic colors. Unlike previous generations who denounced Japanese society strongly, Jeong, Wi Sin doesn’t directly say barriers of discrimination against Japanese Koreans and paradox of Japanese society they endure. Instead, he shows that Korean Japanese society and their family is collapsing internally due to their distrust and hatred. Therefore, his works always focus on ‘dispersed seeds’ or ‘dispersed family’ caused by Diaspora’s life.
Memories of Japanese Koreans are closely related to movement of space as Diaspora’s existence. Jeong, Wi Sin’s plays have spaces alienated and excluded from social development such as Korean Japanese slums, old boutiques, and beef intestines restaurants. This is closely related to identity of Japanese Koreans who exist as the social weak and marginal men. As relating back to forgetting past spaces and memories, he faces past painful and suppressed memories and through this he is establishing present identity. A Korean Japanese writer Jeong, Wi Sin’s studying of plays will perceive existence of Japanese Koreans excluded from existing play history, fulfill the emptiness, and look back on our identity.
KW - Jeong;Wi Sin;Japanese Koreas;Diaspora;barriers;memories;space;minority;identity
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Choi Jung. (2010). A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan. Korean Language & Literature, 74, 613-631.
Choi Jung. 2010, "A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan", Korean Language & Literature, no.74, pp.613-631.
Choi Jung "A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan" Korean Language & Literature 74 pp.613-631 (2010) : 613.
Choi Jung. A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan. 2010; 74 : 613-631.
Choi Jung. "A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan" Korean Language & Literature no.74(2010) : 613-631.
Choi Jung. A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan. Korean Language & Literature, 74, 613-631.
Choi Jung. A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan. Korean Language & Literature. 2010; 74 613-631.
Choi Jung. A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan. 2010; 74 : 613-631.
Choi Jung. "A Study on the Jeong Wi Sin's Drama, a Korean Resident in Japan" Korean Language & Literature no.74(2010) : 613-631.
