• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.108-118
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• 2015

One hundred years have passed since the Western modern play emerged in Korea. Meanwhile, the numerous actors have appeared and disappeared as well, but leaving the record of their great art of acting is still negligible. For stage performances recorded and restoration of works of art creative process is a very important basis for future generations inherit a world of art. The aim of this study will look back on the life and achievements of the greatest senior actor, Jang Min-ho(1924-2012) died in 2012 and see his acting career and world of art. He was born at the time actors were not valued as an expert yet. Recording a life of an actor itself becomes an opportunity for fundamental reflection for the essence of play and role of actor, and introspecting an actor's life on acting becomes an effect that the actor's unique acting style is delivered to younger generations. By recording the actor's life and life on art, I hope that the contemporaries are able to recognize the value and importance of artists leading the contemporary era with being increased interest.

• 건강소식
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.14-15
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• 2012

그야말로 연기 인생 최고의 전성기를 맞아 TV 브라운관과 스크린을 넘나드는 배우 조성하. 주연을 빛내는 조연에서 관객들의 마음을 훔치는 비중 있는 주연 연기자로 그 존재감을 늘려 가고 있는 그의 행보에 자꾸만 관심이 간다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.93-102
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• 2012

This study started from the project that make the record of legendary actor's heritage in Korea. This research was focused on Sung Hee Beck's artistic footprint which was almost same steps as the Korean modern play of the centennial theater history by reviewing her; domestic royal actor; acting techniques which learn from real acting field by herself and her career. Her life shows constant resistance for the social negative reputation of the acting field, and her frantic effort to Korean play and actor's phase. Above all, this passionate actor's life contributes to society, and improve the Korean theater through 70 year's her experiences with countless roles in around 400 performances and her own valuable acting techniques. To look up legendary actress of our time, Sung Hee Beak's life gives us a chance to reflect art of acting which emphasizes its fundamental.

• (The) Research of the performance art and culture
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• no.20
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• pp.63-94
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• 2010

Research on Gong Ok-jin's choreography and its artistic value is still insufficient in the academia of Korea. Her life cannot be said even or smooth - she was born into an artist family with abundant innate talent and sensitivity, feeling joy and sorrow as a gypsy artist begging for food, facing and overcoming the crisis of her trademark deformed dance during the period when she played the solo performance of Changmugeuk, making a transition to the animal dance and finally to the sick dance getting her health back from the long struggle against disease. Her life, however, has always been an artistic expression and we can know that art has been the consolation and driving force of her life. In the Korean artistic tradition that integrates music, singing and dancing, it is beyond doubt that the third has been rather secondary compared with the first two. In the Changmugeuk, however, Gong Ok-jin focuses on each movement of hers, commensurate with the humorous witticism and the traditional opera of pansori. What is her message in such painstaking movements? She puts gestures ahead of words and continues them, reminding her audience of the meaning of dance and driving it into them. Especially, her deformed dance, unprecedented in choreographic history, is hard to understand if you do not sympathize with Koreans' innermost emotions. If you are to understand it, you should first feel what emotions are in Koreans' mentality to be expressed in the form of choreographic elements and what artistic values they carry. This study, in this context, is to reflect upon the original choreographic form of her Changmugeuk solo and to overview Korean dance's unique emotional values with regard to the way Korean choreographic subject matters and traditions are passed down.