1980년대 텔레비주얼 쇼크와 공동체 감각의 변화 -KBS 이산가족찾기(1983)에 대한 재현을 중심으로

Abstract

This article compares the literary works that represented Finding Dispersed Families(1983) with the movie Kilsodeum(1985), and aims to clarify the changes that the development of Korean TV broadcasting technology in the 1980s, including color TV and live broadcasting nationwide, caused in the way the public sensed the community. At that time, the shock that Finding Dispersed Families caused to the public was, first of all, from the sense of simultaneity that the entire people were connected in real time through television. This simultaneity also derives the sense that viewers are participating in the live broadcast. The synchronicity and participation provided by the televisual image delivered a considerable impact even in the realm of art representing community. After the search for separated families, discussions on “Dispersed Families Literature” began in Korean literary circles, but writers faced the problem of novelizing the issue of separation in a different way than before, while feeling the limitations of fiction. In particular, examples such as Park Wan-seo’s Re-separation(1984) suggest that it is no longer possible to restore common memories or to overlook the community from an omniscient point of view. Meanwhile, Kilsodeum, a film that shows ‘Cold Realism’, is drawing attention as an example of combining the logic of televisual images with film aesthetics. This film shows that, paradoxically, the fact that the community does not consist of a homogeneous space and body is clearly revealed in a situation where individuals are connected at a rapid pace through media technology. As seen in these works, Finding Dispersed Families was also an event in which members of the community witnessed each one as a clear other in the physically embodied simultaneity. This fact makes us think of the concept of community as a group of heterogeneous bodies that share only synchronicity, not a group that shares kinship homogeneity.