2000년대 이후 6․25 특별기획드라마에 나타난 한국전쟁의 재현 방식과 그 의미 - MBC <로드넘버원>(2010), KBS <전우>(2010)를 중심으로

Abstract

The two special television series produced to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War are the specific cases to help examine how the war was reproduced and commemorated in the TV programs of 2000s. <Road No.1> meticulously elaborated in advance recreated spectacular scenes and beautiful sceneries, and highlighted the cruelty of the war as an obstacle hindering the true love between a man and a woman. Yet, it only created sensuous scenes and represented vague humanism and fragmentary images of love, and failed to introspect the war itself from a new view point. In particular, the lines expressing the ideology of the Cold War era as it had been were not enough to arouse sympathy from the new generation, and as a result, it was shunned by viewers in spite of star production crews and cast. On the other hand, <Comrades> seemed as if it was under the limitations of past anti-communist dramas reproducing a soldier's tale of heroism because of its focus on battle scenes. Yet, the challenge to the dominant memory of the war could rather win the sympathy of the contemporary generation because it showed a skeptical viewpoint on the war and the government, and dealt with the absolute matter of survival transcending ideologies. It can be evaluated to have opened a new potential for a TV drama to help remember and find the meanings of the Korean War in a different way.