현희운의 化粧談論

Abstract

Hyeon Hui-un(玄僖運) was not only valued as a founder of a transitional modern drama, but a director of Kyeong-seong Beauty Parlor[京城美容院] which was the first research institute of cosmetics in Joseon. He had taken the lead three women’s magazine; Trace of Perfume(香痕), Madam(婦人), Hygiene and Makeup(衛生과化粧), and he had tried to build makeup as fundamental value of modern cultural discourse. This thesis intends to illuminate why he had called a Makeup as modern liberal assignment through analyzed his writing in three magazines. There were filled with his will to change matter of dressing up the outside from hygiene as modern bodily discourse to more independent territory of refinement in his articles. It could be rated as an enthusiastic attitude that paid attention value of makeup in modern health discourse. He recognized makeup, which dresses up and expresses beauty, as an essential element of modern social attitude. Especially he regarded cosmetics as modern scientific products, furthermore he paid attention to its artistic value. So this thesis examines Hyeon Hui-un's will and limit which had tried to make makeup, which was called by modern appearance, to one of modern cultural discourse.