일제강점기 여성 이미지의 시각화 - 기생과 여급을 중심으로

Abstract

The image conversion of Gi-Saeng(a professional female entertainer) and the visual realization of a waitress are caused by the medium containing the voyeurism sight in modern ages of early 1900's. The medium reflects contemporary issues in relation with the voyeurism point of view that is still progressive in present time. This paper surveyed the news papers and the magazines during the Japanese colonial era, Mail Shinbo, Dong-Ah Ilbo, Byul-Geon-Gon and Sam-Cheon-Li, that showed the image change of Gi-Saeng, the created image of a waitress as a new type of female. During the Japanese Colonial Era, the image of Gi-Saeng was changed from the original idea and a waitress was a new concept of female. The survey analyzed how these images were created, consumed, and regulated by the male, female, and nation. The general images of Gi-Saeng and a waitress were immorality or obscenity. Additionally, they were objects of sexuality and having a relationship at the same time for the male. They were also objects to be controlled and punished by the Japanese rulers and objects of threatening family system for the female. They were commercialized sexually and consumed by the mass media and political power through the strategy of regulation and negligence. Moreover, the modern woman also became a target of hatred because the voyeurism sight stretched to the ordinary female by including them into the same group with Gi-Saeng and a waitress. Through all these processes that the women undertook changes in social status, it was possible to see that women’s social status was connected to the Empire of Japan’s national policy.