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This paper studies the change of people’s horse culture and the recognition of horse ludic culture in Korea through the ludic imagination of Roger Caillois, focusing on Korea’s traditional horse-related activities, horse culture exploitation during the Japanese colonial period and the famous play such as horse racing in Korean modern times chronologically. Traditionally horse ludic imagination in Korea has strong properties of agon which means competition, and mimicry which means imitation as well, based on the interaction between people and horses. This is because the roles of horses were widely essential for real lives of people in the past. In the Japanese colonial period, Korea’s horse culture was interrupted and distorted by the colonial discourse of Japanese imperialism, which resulted in the discrepancy that horse racing first introduced to Korea unilaterally by Chosun-chongdokbu was enhanced excessively by alea meaning luck. In modern times, horse racing in Korea still operated by closed off-line system, being more speculative, is gaining increasingly the ludic property of ilinx which means dizziness under the situation of information asymmetry, heading into some remote part of the social culture. An on-line technology constrained situation makes it difficult that ludic information for virtuous cycle can be accepted effectively in rational decision making and cultural recognition of people. Given the circumstance of perfect information, there can be little chance that a foreign gambling group takes excess gains unreasonablely and illegal private horse racing is prevalent clandestinely in Korea. This discussion is not limited to horse racing in Korea, which can be applied to various plays in Korea.

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