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This study analyzes the humanistic value of TV genre dramas <Signal> which is the work of Kim Eunhee, who is estimated to have settled the Korean TV genre drama. The drama <Signal> is a crime investigation drama based on actual longterm unfair cases, and it adds a fantasy setting that uses timeshifting motifs. The process of connecting past and present figures and resolving longterm unfair cases is interpreted as a symbolic representation of the revolutionary history composition similar to W. Benjamin's time concept and historical philosophy. This drama emphasizes that the most important time is now, through fantasy narratives breaking the natural laws of time that lead to the past, present and future. It is to remind W. Benjamin's philosophy about time and history that he criticized the concept of modern time that the purpose of time flow was not to return to the past that had been left in the future. The drama is deemed to be the most important of the justice and truth of the real world. It tells us that the justice and truth is to remember no matter how time flows, and it is the most important conditions of human existence. As a result, the fantasy of this drama has not only been consumed as a new and enjoyable story while maintaining popular genre customs. It was meaningful that we were here to evoke our reality problems and to create the effect of sharing a more progressive historical awareness.

genre drama, <Signal>, time, human existence, W. Benjamin, view of history, fantasy