In the 1920s, automobiles were no longer a novelty attraction or a privilege of a few. Various types of cars such as Ford, Chevrolets, and Packards appeared on the streets of Joseon. As a result, who rides or owns which car has become a concern for pe...
In the 1920s, automobiles were no longer a novelty attraction or a privilege of a few. Various types of cars such as Ford, Chevrolets, and Packards appeared on the streets of Joseon. As a result, who rides or owns which car has become a concern for people. The appearance and brand of the car visually represented the wealth and power of the user or owner. In addition, cars that carry the owner's body have become a means of transportation and a hobby. The public began to add aesthetic tastes to cars. Accordingly, the desire for consumption is further subdivided, and as a result, consumption is also densely stratified. On the other hand, the advent of the automobile era has spread while justifying the capitalist way of thinking that humans can be priced in economic value based on potential production capacity. In this way of thinking, since each has different production capabilities, stratification and inequality that human values deserve to be all different are also naturally accepted. As such, automobiles are the result of the concentration of a capitalist production system, and at the same time, it has become a media that carries the public and drives smoothly into a capitalist thinking system.