In the half part of 20th century, Koreans suffered from the Japanese government control. In that period, Oh,Yung-Jin(1916∼1974) was interested in people's realities, wills and struggles. He dramatised our manners and morals, and enlighted our people...
In the half part of 20th century, Koreans suffered from the Japanese government control. In that period, Oh,Yung-Jin(1916∼1974) was interested in people's realities, wills and struggles. He dramatised our manners and morals, and enlighted our people so that they might awaken national spirits. And he revived the form and substance of traditional dramas with a new technique.
Oh,Yung-Jin thought that virtue should be accomplised with self-control, not with striving with evil. This virtue thought as a national spirit by him. And his drama is different from the literature of which the subject is encouraging the good and punishing the evil. Then, when this virtue could not be accomplished, our people used to describe it as nihilism and "Han".
On the other hand, some people used to utter it through the simple means of laughter. That might be our people's comic spirit. Using it, Oh,Yung-Jin ignored the Japanese government's control over Korean culture, and enlighted our people so that they might awaken national spirits. And with convent ionalizing forms and common people's irrationality due to their quality of aoting, he represented people's passive spirit.
In "The Mangs' happy event", he revived the descriptive structure which is seen in Pan-so-ri through the methods of farce. And its structure consists of five steps. Each step is developing with negation which is not direct, but indirect. This structure seen in "Bong-San masked dance" is the comically intensive form in the struggle of actual world.