집단적 치유와 제의로서 북한 영화 : <자강도 사람들>을 중심으로 = Reading North Korean Film as Collective Treatment and Suggestion : Focused on <People of Jagangdo>

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of ?Reading North Korean Film as Collective Treatment and Suggestion?is to illuminate that the film <People of Jagang-do> was produced for collective treatment and as a national occasion. <People of Jagang-do> was produced by Joseon Arts Movie Studio in 2000, and released in 2001. In May of 2001, it was broadcasted through the Joseon Central TV. <People of Jagang-do> is a movie that pictures the construction process of a power plant in Jagang-do during the period of the ``Arduous March`` during the mid-1990s. The significance of this movie is that it directly issued the theme of the ``Arduous March``. Among North Korean art and literature, there are not many works handling the theme of the ``Arduous March``. The crisis during the mid-1990s was a collective experience that influenced all of North Korea. Food crisis, resource crisis, and foreign currency crisis resulted in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of death. Likewise, in the movie, the problems that the people of Jagang-do had to face during the period of the ``Arudous March`` are explicitly revealed. Chung Man-ho, who died while wandering around snow-covered fields to find food, is a symbolic representation of the <People of Jagang-do>. In North Korean movies, death is commonly portrayed as devoted sacrifice for their leader or the social system. In North Korean films, there are hardly any scenes with people dying in snow-covered fields in the process of searching for food. Hazardous environment such as a snow storm would be perceived as a symbolic hardship that needs to be overcome. This implies that the adversity North Korea had to go through during the ``Arduous March`` was tormenting. Not only Chung Man-ho but also the features of Lee Sun-hee, the wife of the power plant construction brigade commander Kang Ho-seong, who had to die of cancer with the lack of medication; and young female workers, who had to make sure the workers of the power plant excavation construction each received 40 seeds of corn, are a realistic confession of the ``Arduous March``. What could be the motives of North Korea to produce and broadcast this film, considering that art activity is usually allowed only under the absolute influence and control of the government. In this paper, it is analyzed as a process for restoration of the self-narrative epic of North Korean social system under the pretext of collective treatment. As the ``Arduous March`` was named by the North Korean authorities, there was a need to form a collective cultural consciousness signify- ing the end of the ``Arduous March``. The goal of building a strong and prosperous nation, increasingly emphasized since 2000, could not be persuasive without finding the exit to the ``Arduous March``. Thus, there was a need for a cultural act to announce the complete end of the ``Arduous March``. A collective treatment process to confirm the escape from collective trauma of the ``Arduous March`` was necessary. By suggesting the causes of the ``Arduous March`` and showing the process of winning as the result, it is to announce that they have officially overcome the collective trauma of the ``Arudous March``. This process was not a critical reconstruction process of memory. It was a reconstruction process of collective memory influenced under the intervention of the North Korean social system. The ``reconstruction of collective memory`` regarding the ``Arduous March`` was achieved through the movie. Although it was disturbing to reveal, the passing of the ``Arduous March`` had to be proclaimed, and the cultural and ritual announcement to mark the end of the ``Arduous March`` happened to be precisely the <People of Jagang-do>.

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