Identifying western modernity as others, Korean understanding of modernity aiming at Korean way of modernity in the 1950s, intended to shape the identity of nation state by calling tradition. As the discourse on tradition in the 1950s, a counter-disco...
Identifying western modernity as others, Korean understanding of modernity aiming at Korean way of modernity in the 1950s, intended to shape the identity of nation state by calling tradition. As the discourse on tradition in the 1950s, a counter-discourse against western modernity, intended to find spiritual value in tradition which leads modernization, suppressed individual value such as freedom and personal uniqueness based in the western civil society. And the conception on tradition in the 1950s regards women and families as a space of pure tradition, burdened woman with order of pre-modern tradition. Thus the conception on tradition formated gendered understanding of modernity.
Dominant feminity in the 1950s is created in discourse by the conception on tradition, thus the discourse on woman in the 1950s is a part of understanding of modernity in the 1950s. The symbol of dominant feminity in the discourse on woman in the 1950s is divided in two in the basis of traditional paternallism. 'Hynmoyangchur' is a symbol of ideal feminity which complies order of paternallism and guard the national tradition. On the other hand, 'jeonjangmimangin', 'yangkongju' and 'jayubuin' are symbols of dangerous woman violates order of paternallism. By the political mechanisms in the discourse such as that, the subject of gendered understanding of modernity in the 1950s called Korean women in the name of tradition, as such they intended to bring the crisis in paternallism caused by Korean Civil War and modernization under control.