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- Title
Security, Nationalism and Popular Culture: Screening South Korea’s Uneasy Identity in the Early 2000s.
- Authors
Cho, Young
- Abstract
By examining the cultural representations of the South Korean notion of the Self/Other in relation to its major traditional enemy — North Korea — this article aims to capture a picture of South Korea’s discursive economy of the North, and to problematise the South Korean identities implicated in that economy in the early 2000s. To achieve these aims, this article focuses on representations of a successful popular South Korean film which was released in 2000, just a few months after the first inter-Korean summit: Joint Security Area JSA. By analytically reading JSA, it is revealed that, in South Korea, the traditional discursive practices based on the Cold War thinking have been eroded. For the South, the North is part of the Self (Korean-ness; love for the North as the same nation) and, at the same time, is an Other (South Korean-ness; contempt for the North as an inferior state). Related to this, South Korea appears to be the uneasy Self without a firm Other in between Korean-ness and South Korean-ness.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; NORTH Korea; NATIONAL security; NATIONALISM; WAR &; society; IDENTITY (Psychology); ECONOMIC conditions in South Korea; NORTH Korea-South Korea relations; TWENTY-first century
- Publication
East Asia: An International Quarterly, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1096-6838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12140-009-9086-z