공상과 과학의 시대 - 1960년대 후반 어린이 관객의 형성과 애니메이션과 괴수영화 출현의 의미 -

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between the development of a new genre of Korean cinema and the rise of children audience, focusing on the animated film Hong Gil Dong (Shin Dong-heon) and the science fiction movie The Great Monster Yongary (Kim Ki Duk). These films succeeded in box office in 1967. The emergence of these films is related not only to new film technology and attempt to new genres, but also to the differentiation and expansion of Korean film audiences. There have been developments of new audiences in the backgrounds of these films, which have been read as strange appearances in Korean film history. Child-centered family audiences, which began to emerge in the mid-1960s, had a great influence on the production of animated films and science films as their designated genre. There are also various political and social meanings in the emergence of these films. The expansion of the Korean language education and children's books market, the increased interest in science education, and the competition of global space science and technology have played an important role in the emergence of animation and science fiction films. In addition, as the culture that satisfies the children and the families that meet the new family of the Park Chung Hee regime, it can be said that the films appeared by the necessity of children’s movie or family movie. This paper examines the background and process behind the formation of children audience in the Korean film industry around 1967, when Hong Gil Dong and The Great Monster Yongary were produced. This indicates that children began to become popular consumers of popular culture, and the presence of children audience in the film industry has begun to emerge in the middle and late of the 1960s. Through this process, I examine the political, social, and cultural backgrounds of animations and monster films that have emerged as genres according to the formation of consumers.