한국사회와 청년들: ‘자기파괴적’ 체제비판 또는 배제된 자들과의 조우

Abstract

The youth would have fragmentized as a group of isolated subjects more and more under the capital-globalism. The youth generation have lost their homogeneity in the context of youth culture. In fact, the youth have been difficult to acquire their identities not as consumers but as communities/groups in these days. The discourse of ‘880000won generation’ such as irregular youth-labors, casual youth-labors would make changes in the socio-critical perspective of the youth, that oppositional perspectives of the social structure such as ideologic oppositions have lost effectiveness in our society. Here lies the key to why it is that the youth generation discourse especially the youth culture discourse could not give an explanation of present-day youth. According to the youth generation discourse and the youth culture discourse, present-day youth would have been criticized the aspects of their lethargic, passive, pliable attitudes of the society. On the other hand, present-day youth would explain for themselves. Here, We could find another identities of the present-day youth. But both approach have overlooked Korean present-day youth now have been not appreciably different from ‘the irregular labors, the social weak, the poor’ any more. I researched contemporary Korean literature dealt with present-day youth regarding the solidarity. Through the researching for the contemporary Korean literature dealt with present-day youth such as ‘irregular youth-labors, the bumming, job seekers - that is the space has been lost in the socio-cultural perspective - I reveal that the contemporary Korean literature dealt with present-day youth showed the social issues properly and that gave us the solutions and prospects of the Korean societies’s problematics.