‘명성황후’의 문화콘텐츠와 역사읽기

Abstract

This thesis aims to search for education of Cultural business on The assassination of the Korean Empress on October 8, 1895(Eulmi Incident, also called Operation Fox Hunt). We often abbreviated as The assassination of Myeongseong Hwanghu(明成皇后, 1851~1895), meaning Empress Myeongseong. She was skilled in foreign affairs and diplomacy, and had an ambitious plan to modernize Korea. In my thesis, I focus on the Novel, television drama, Queen Myeong-Seong and the Visual arts like Movie, Musical etc. Her role has been widely debated by writers. For example, 『Ths assassination of the Korean Empress(閔妃暗殺―朝鮮王朝末期の國母)』(新潮社, 1988) by Tunoda husako, That writer wrote that there is no relation that accident of assassination with Japanese government. And, I searched the visual arts. the operatic musical <The Last Empress>(1995) has made its London, NewYork, Peking etc. The musical has drawn over 500,000 viewers, staging over 370 performances since its debut in 1995. But In the scene of Queen's death, We noticed the classification of death. There is no the death of people, we can watch just the death of hero. In the TV series <Empress Myeongseong> (Presented by KBS 2TV, 2001), She is viewed as a national heroine, for striving diplomatically and politically to keep Korea independent of foreign influence. According to “the TV drama” and musical, her name was Min Ja-yeong(閔紫英), but there is no evidence based on written documents of that name. Movie <Like Fireworks, like Butterflies>(2009) is the movie with the mixing the various Genre by love, history even Computer graphic. Lovesick Moo-myoung becomes the personal guard to the queen in order to be closer to Ja-young. After attaining the title of queen, Ja-young tries to modernize the dynasty by allying with foreign nations but becomes turmoiled into a political power struggle. But this movie use her for the consumed image.