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A Study on the Representation of Women and Ethics in Kim Seung Ok’s Adaptations

Eunyoung Lee 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, I maintain that in Kim Seung Ok’s adapted scenarioswomen reemerge as central and marginal figures, respectively, in the fieldsof reproduction and production fields. With regard to the former, he remakesconventional and modern women figures through emphasizing traditionalmaternity or stressing socialization of motherhood. With regard tothe latter, he reenacts women as social others, separate from the idea of‘a good wife and wise mother’ in a heathy home. He remakes women with ‘a good wife and wise mother discourse’ inthe course of adapting popular novels to screen plays because he was consciousof popularity and censorship. But the point that women in his scenariosare represented as equal and autonomous subject in narrative shouldnot be overlooked. In other words, he depicts women characters who become independentwithout men’s help in the production and the reproduction realms. Besides, he sets the relationship between men and women as an intimateone. I point out that is the women’s desire at that time, as well as beingKim Seung Ok’s ethics.

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