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초록

<The Spring Song Flows to the Sea> by Jung Ui-shin is set on a remote island in the southern region of Colonial Korea during the last days of the Pacific War, and depicts characters sacrificed to war and imperialism. Jung Ui-shin, who is a Zainichi Korean writer and director, has been acclaimed as a writer who is good at shedding light on the problems of minorities. He vividly portrayed the issues related Zainichi Koreans who are political and cultural minorities and marginalized people, as well as that of the social vulnerable such as LGBTQs, women, the disabled, and poor through various characters in his playwrights. In <The Spring Song Flows to the Sea>, Jung Ui-shin points out the issues of ‘people sacrificed to nationalism’, ‘citizens abandoned by both Korea and Japan’, and ‘characters who had to play the historical villain regardless of their will’. But unlike his previous works, amidst the dichotomous structure of state violence against sacrificed individuals, the issues of gender, disabilities, and ethnic reproduction that he agonized over in his previous works were removed of concrete contexts and historicity and is once again otherized. This study analyzed the process of lump fixation of the issues of bordering and otherness that Jung Ui-shin’s works attempt to depict in the position of ‘victimization’ and erasing major political and cultural differences in the dichotomous discourse of state vs. country and assailant vs. victim, and examines how this strengthens social norms and once again exclude minorities.

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