<한공주>의 편향적 젠더 인식 연구

Abstract

Han Gong-ju, based on the infamous Miryang gang rape incident of 2004, is a film about the pain and despair of the woman victimised from the sexual violence. Won many film festival awards, Han Gong-ju was praised by critics and audiences with its attitude to criticize the deep rooted male centered perception of Korean society isolating victimised woman. But it is problematic that Han Gong-ju is deceptively reproducing the gender biased perception while criticizing the Korean society for not looking at the injustice and the absurdity of the incident. In the film, Gongju and Hwa-ok are represented as the image of female saint and prostitute respectively. Gon-ju, the virgin is represented as a innocent victim, while Hwa-ok who is not virgin is forced to commit a suicide. The impossibility to make a female solidarity with the interruption of the man can not save Gon-ju from death. Even Han Gong-ju tried to criticize male oriented Korean society which drove victimised woman to commit a suicide, it strengthened and reproduced the gender biased perception through classical female representation.