@article{ART003146104},
author={Kwon Euncho},
title={Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2024},
volume={81},
number={4},
pages={153-179}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kwon Euncho
TI - Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2024
VL - 81
IS - 4
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 153
EP - 179
SN - 1598-3021
AB - Nationalism is alive and well and driven by narratives on the Internet. In this light, this study focuses on “garlic memes” related to the Dangun myth.
“Garlic memes” are Internet memes that are created, modified, imitated, and circulated through shared ideas about the consumption of garlic by Koreans.
“Garlic memes” consider the attribute of loving garlic as a Korean identity.
In particular, “garlic memes” emphasize the Korean identity by comparing Koreans to foreigners. Some “garlic memes” combine with the Dangun myth.
As a result, contemporary Koreans, bears, and a bear woman, who appears in the typical type of the Dangun myth, are equated. “Garlic memes” naturalize the idea that Koreans love garlic because of their ancestor, the bear woman.
After all, “garlic memes” are a nationalist myth that naturalizes Korean identity. On the Internet, the Dangun myth is rewritten to the myth of “garlic memes.”
KW - Internet;Dangun Myth;“Garlic Memes;” Nationalism;Korean Identity;Myth
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Kwon Euncho. (2024). Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(4), 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. 2024, "Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.81, no.4 pp.153-179.
Kwon Euncho "Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81.4 pp.153-179 (2024) : 153.
Kwon Euncho. Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”. 2024; 81(4), 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. "Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.4 (2024) : 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(4), 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2024; 81(4) 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”. 2024; 81(4), 153-179.
Kwon Euncho. "Rewriting the Dangun: Myth on the Internet Focusing on “Garlic Memes”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.4 (2024) : 153-179.
