근대 매체를 통한 신여성의 외양에 나타난 서양문화의 변용

Abstract

It can be seen that a series of women’s magazines published in Korea and Japan respectively amid the Japanese colonial period have served as a kind of representative cultural literature able to offer a glimpse into the ways in which then new women relish multifarious cultural experiences of their own in modern urban space. Such modern experiences accordingly led new women to accept western culture with their envy and longing for the West as a whole, with them further experiencing since 1920 new culture via new forms of media-consumption culture that began to emerge centering around cities. At that time, it was by and large women representative of, for instance, new women, female students, modern girl, and so forth who were considered a de-facto influential social group active in accommodating such a new consumption culture. In this sense, women’s magazine of that time could be valued further as a medium through which to be able to understand the role as well as image of both old women representative of traditional culture and new women emergent under the then newly formed modern culture. By way of then new women’s awareness and attitude manifest in women’s magazines, not only can the rationale behind acculturation of their clothing – as a symbol of then respective modern culture in Korea and Japan – to western culture be therefore traced, but such an acculturation in their appearance can also be examined. In particular, this paper focuses on examination of a variety of cultural experiences both Korean and Japanese new women have had and of the concomitant tendency of acculturation to western culture, centering upon their acculturated appearance as a symbol of modern culture at that time