• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.7-13
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• 2018

Director Shin, Dong-il is one of the artists who is constantly pursuing his own work theme with his artistic insistence in the Korean film industry. He is an artist who criticizes modern society's systems, ideologies, and ills and questions them all the time. (2017), which he introduced in eight years after , is an extension of the work theme pursued by previous works, but it is a work that shows a different change from previous works. In this paper, I divide the world of works Shin, Dong-il pursues into three types of Others, Boundaries, and Drives, analyzing the common points and changes of . And through such analysis, I will examine the work theme of Director Shin Dong-il and measure the direction of change.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.156-169
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• 2015

The negative awareness of a multiculturalism rises around the world because of various problems that happen with the multicultural phenomenon. Nevertheless, the reason we uphold multiculturalism is that multicultural phenomenon is an inevitable consequence of capitalism and the decline of multiculturalism might imply danger of bringing about radical nationalism. This study assumes that a distortion of multiculturalism is the result from a myth of romance film which affects the public perception as an integral component of a discourse. Grounded upon monomith, the narrative structure of romance film of which motive comes from courtly love makes people miscomprehend the value of multiculturalism because of the multicultural factor as substitute for romantic obstacle. As the character of romance movie is likely to be formed focusing on superficial images and denotations, this tendency causes the hierarchy and the representative minority drives out the rest of other minorities. The attempt to arouse people's tolerance and understanding of the other is frustrated both by the structure of binary oppositions and the clich$\acute{e}$.