1980년대 이산가족 영화에서 드러나는 가족주의 양상

Abstract

One of the problems caused by the Korean war that still persists today is the problem of separated families. It was not mentioned in the movies until KBS started airing programs that sought out separated family members, as only after the broadcasts did the topic appear in fiction and movies. However, it was not mentioned along the war which has long become history, instead focusing on the ‘family’ that were separated during the war and have already lived over three decades in entirely different environments. It broke the illusion created by the emphasis on ‘finding’ separated family members, but relating the stories of ‘living’ as separated families. These four movies are about the restoration of families that were physically separated because of the war and have lived in separation due to the armistice. <The Winter That Year Was Warm> and <Kilsodeum> show how strong patriarchal families collapse and fathers lose their patriarchate. They also show that the traditional families, based on kinship, have taken on another meaning coming from social status, slowly transforming from the absolute to the more relative social entities. Although families in terms of kinship, if they have drifted apart and became different through separation, they can only become a true family after acknowledging each other and calling each other family. These two movies also show the darker side of capitalism and the changing society of Korea, namely the increasing gap between the rich and the poor during the high-growth industrialization period from 1960 to 1970. At the same time, the movies also point out the unsolved problems brought by the pause of －not the end of－ the Korean War and the changing concepts of family, ethnicity and nation in the mid 1980s when a generation has passed already.