BTS 현상에 관한 목회상담 연구: 취약함으로 연대하다

Abstract

This research focuses on the 'BTS phenomenon' and its implications for pastoral counseling. Studying BTS as a cultural phenomenon means that this popular culture holds the phenomenon, the process, and the narrative content. To understand the BTS phenomenon, it is also essential to understand the process that led to the current position and the personal, social, and structural messages BTS sends out. Which narrative is reflected in the BTS phenomenon? What kind of cultural content does this narrative contain? What direction it reflects and points to must be understood comprehensively. The BTS phenomenon has overturned the existing Western-centric, large-scale capital power system that used to be central, leading to a top-down cultural approach. This revolutionary subversion made possible by a non-Western Asian boy band achieved its position by challenging the old system through communication and a mutual relationship with their fans, the ARMY. Rather than simply emphasizing the BTS phenomenon, this research will focus on engaging and developing the discourse together with the field of pastoral counseling. Since pastoral counseling presupposes interdisciplinary research, it is likely to have a conversation with the social and global phenomenon of BTS. From a macroscopic point of view, all are impacted by cultural phenomena. And understanding and developing the macroscopic perspective is one of the main tasks of pastoral counseling, so it is necessary to study the intersection of these two fields. Applying the analysis of the BTS phenomenon to pastoral counseling, this research suggests being in assembly with the vulnerable through mutual relationships. Furthermore, it is argued that the reciprocal relationship between the counselor and the client in pastoral counseling comprises the client's vulnerability and the counselor's in assembly.