Korean Fandom of Idol Singer Group is receiving attention as an core motivation of the third Korean Wave. Many studies said that the enduring appeal of K-pop is an emergent atmosphere of Korean Fandom of Idol Singer Group.
In abroad the concept of F...
Korean Fandom of Idol Singer Group is receiving attention as an core motivation of the third Korean Wave. Many studies said that the enduring appeal of K-pop is an emergent atmosphere of Korean Fandom of Idol Singer Group.
In abroad the concept of Fanfic is short for Fan-fiction. But in Korea, the concept of Fanfic and Fan-fiction are distinct clearly. In Korea, Fan-fiction means that derivative works which made by such as English dramas or American dramas’ fans. They are derivative of complete narratives which have definite characters, events, temporal and spatial backgrounds.
Narrative of Homosexuality is the mainstream of Fanfics in Korean Fandom of Idol Singer Boy Group. Especially the homosexual love between male character and male one is the majority narrative of Korean Idol Fanfic.
In Fan-fiction culture, fans accept the fiction which not included the narration of forming a relationship between man and woman or relationship between man and man or relationship between woman and woman. But in Korean Idol Fanfic culture, fans accept only the texts which include the narration of forming a sexual relationship between members of Idol Singer Boy Group. In this regard, the Korean Idol Fanfic must have the tale of forming a matching relationship.
On prior research, the reason why narrative of homosexuality is the main contents of Korean Idol Fanfic is fans’ gender and age. But this study wish to reveal the reason why narrative of homosexuality is the main contents of Korean Idol Fanfic by textual analysis.
The focus of this study is the narrative of Korean idol fanfics and system of meaning which exist in the basis of fanfics. And then this study draw the thematic consciousness of fanfics by dividing the types of fanfics’ narrative and describing aspects of reappearance of homosexual love.
For a detailed textual analysis, this study classified Korean idol fanfic in terms of its form and content. In this process, based on aesthetic epistemology of Virgil Aldrich, this study tried to distinguish which fanfic is valuable to analyze and selected complete fiction fanfic as study object which can be classified as short, novella, and full-length story. In fiction fanfic, the author takes real person as character, and tris to materialize his subject as a complete story in terms of content and form. This paper selected six masterpieces of Shinwha fanfics, referring to the most representative data of fan cafe of idol group Shinwha.
In chapter 2, before analyzing particular texts, this study looked into the process and characteristic of Korean idol fanfic. Based on this, this study revealed the history of how homosexual narrative could become the mainstream in idol fanfic. As fandom culture developed, the fan toward the whole group rather than individual member became as a correct form of fan. So the fan extended the attachment for one member into a significant relationship among members. As a result, homosexual narrative became a representative as Korean idol fanfic.
Chapter 3 reveals the narration of firming between man and woman of idol fanfic comparing to Korean narrative of love. Korean idol fanfic shows a association between binary oppositional characters as a dramatically extended recognition phase. This phase includes process if trying to win someone’s love. In addition, the combination of two people in homosexual narrative can be made only by physical sex under approve of ‘gong’. Therefore the step of match is removed, the step of promise is extended, and it includes the steps of obstacles, overcome, coupling.
In chapter 4, this study divides the narratives of fanfics as three different types by using the characteristics of stages of narration of forming a relationship between man and man. First, the type of woman as the rival in love tells the victory of homosexual love over heterosexual love. Second, the type of self-examination fanfics are story about main characters’ narrative of growth. Third, the type of fail of coupling fanfics show a fatalistic suicide as the unreasonable result of original sin.
This study’s premise is the fact that the Korean Idol Fanfic is the qualitative text which can be the case of text analysis. However, this study takes only six fanfics of Shinhwa as objects of study. This study needs to be made up for quantitative study and take more objects of fanfics.