애니메이션 <진격의 거인>의 인기 요인과 일본문화콘텐츠로서의 함의 연구 = A Study on the Factors of Popularity of “Attack on Titan”, an Animated Film, and the Implication as a Japanese Cultural Content

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper is designed to reconsider the status and one’s awareness of popular Japanese cultural contents in Korea in the state of recent deteriorating Korea-Japan relationship. Especially, it has examined factors of popularity and various implications focusing on “Attack on Titan”, an animated film, which has been sensational in both Korea and Japan since 2013. There are various reasons behind the popularity, above all, the first factor is that the film has a binary plot between men and giants and diverse symbols. However, a variety of interpretations of the work in Korea, which coincided with this popularity, and controversies about the rightwing trend of the writer caused a decline of the popularity. And it was a momentum for people to ask the essential meaning of Japanese cultural content works. Six years later, although the popularity of the film in Korea is less than that of 2013, it is still gaining its own popularity among the big fans.
To sum up, this paper shows that what kind of strengths of Japanese cultural contents are making the controversial work continue to be popular. Also, it proves that the film has various implications with interesting and exciting symbols like giants, cannibalism, and fear etc. Furthermore, it confirms that the potential of Japanese cultural contents in the active use of traditional Japanese cultural archetype. Finally, through these kinds of implementation method, it can offer one of the opportunities to redefine the current position of Japanese cultural contents in Korea.

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