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Abstract

The purpose of this study is concerned about the relationship between film and reality in order to identify social implications to explore paradigm and ideology in South Korea: post-modernism, pluralism, multiculturalism, globalization. Next, representation of methods and exposures of film characters were analyzed on the basis of Peirce's semiotics. As a result, indicators and symbols which were common to them are 'poor' and 'socially disadvantaged'. Immigrants in the film had various nationalities, but their personal characteristics did not show any tendency. The fact that they are only a part of the migrant group members is emphasized. Each of their culture has heterogeneity and diversity, and they go through the process of infusion. However, that process of infusion is not shown in this film. Finally, this study analyzes the immigrants' representation of the film in Korean Society: focusing on the meaning and thoroughly grasping the problem of representation in the film. The results are summarized as follows. First, the film contains racist prejudice. Second, by setting the situation of problem as described above, the film’s ultimate purpose is to emphasize an attitude of respecting multiple cultures based on pluralism. Third, immigrants are drawn as socially disadvantaged and unprotected when they usually experience verbal and physical violence. Fourth, the unjust social situation of conflict is not a problem with the system, instead, it makes the problem regarded as a matter of one person. This narrows the scope of the problem. This study presents that we need to take a long view about what we can do consciously or unconsciously for practical understanding of multi-cultural issues and immigrants.