• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.70
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• pp.66-94
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• 2015

Postcolonialism, as a school of thought, has become enormously influential for understanding the recent phenomena of globalization. While rejecting the universalizing categories of the Enlightenment, postcolonialism has called into question the old idea of culture and identity as a transcendent regime of authenticity and purity. It has also celebrated the diasporic experiences that entail porous and hybrid cultural identities as a potential site of struggle and resistance against the dominant cultural and discursive order. It is argued, however, that postcolonial theory's emancipatory claims relating to the diversified global culture tend to be complicit with transnational capitalism that brings about global issues of material as well as cultural injustice. This article, through a thorough review of the ways the postcolonial theoretical framework has been developed and appropriated by main figures in postcolonial scholarship, seeks for a theoretical and critical strategy to grasp the complex conditions of global inequality.

• Archives of design research
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• v.19 no.2 s.64
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• pp.195-206
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• 2006

The computer game industry has managed to become the fastest growing segment of the entertainment industry nowadays. However, only a very low number of computer game products manage to cover the costs of production and generate earnings. According to traditional marketing wisdom, customers' preferences are a core issue in creating successful products, and the design process in game is crucial for guaranteeing garners' satisfaction. This research aimed to explore key design factors for the game design based on the new framework of the usability evaluation. We examined the usability in Massively Multi-player Online Role-playing Games (MMORPGs) and reviewed literatures related to games simultaneously. We identified eighteen usability issues in MMORPG and presented its recommendation relevant to the issues. Moreover, the results of the study showed fifty four key design factors composed of game interface, game play, game narrative, and game mechanics for the game design. The research is concluded with key implications to support the early stage of the design process in game.

• Journal of English Language & Literature
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• v.57 no.5
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• pp.813-838
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• 2011

Toni Morrison's ninth novel A Mercy delves into the colonial American history of the seventeenth century when Europeans began to migrate to the New World and when the first slaves were brought to Virginia. Morrison presents a diverse group of people such as white Europeans, an American Indian, a free black man, indentured servants, and slaves from Africa in order to explore the subjects of ownership, freedom and racism. She emphasizes the fact that most of the Europeans who came to America in the early seventeenth century were the people who were thrown out from the society such as felons, prostitutes, servants and children. By portraying how these castaways tried to settle in a new environment surrounded by unknown dangers and challenges, Morrison demystifies and reconstructs the myth of the birth of America as a nation state. In continuation of Morrison's writings about love and the betrayal of love, her novel A Mercy explores the subjects of trauma, memory and subjectivity by choosing the topic of motherly love and its betrayal which she dealt with poignantly in Beloved. The female protagonist, Florens, is given away by her mother in partial payment of debt incurred by the owner of Florens's mother. The traumatic memory of Florens's separation from her mother shapes Florence's character. She has to revisit the site of the original traumatic experiences of being given up by her mother in order to reconstruct her fragmented memory and past. The recurring dream of the traumatic incident that takes hold of Florens can be explained by the trauma theory of Freud, Cathy Caruth, Suzette Henke, and Judith Herman. The paper explores the self journey of Florens in which she faces the traumatic past and comprehends its meaning which enables her to construct her subjectivity by understanding the true meaning of being free and of owning oneself. In particular, it demonstrates how the process of writing a confession, a story about one's history, enables one to reclaim the traumatic experience and to locate it in the narrative memory.

• Journal of Popular Narrative
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.67-99
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• 2019

This paper analyzed romance novels imported into Korea in the 1980s and examined the traits of Korean girls' culture at that time. To this end, This paper chose as subjects the series of 'high-teen romance' published by Samjungdang, 'princess bestseller' by Seoul Publishing and the 'silhouette romance' by Joongang Ilbo in the 1980s. Through the aspects of the paperback romances, the traits of the artist, the content of the work, and the response of the reader, this paper analyzed the position and affection of romance as a genre in Korean culture in the 1980s. In the 1980s, most of the paperback romances available in Korea were translations of the modern and progressive present lines of Harlequin Enterprise's category romance. There were also many writers who were mostly introduced with progressive characters like Charlotte Lamb. The Harlequin romance depicts a story of sensual love. These translated 1980s paperback romance novels allowed girls in Korea to freely imagine the problems of sex and love. In particular, it showed a new perspective on women's sexuality. In Korean love novels, the sexuality of women was treated as an object for the gaze of men. The novels of female writers as college student who criticized this dealt with women's sexuality, but focused on criticism and resistance to the ideology of chastity. The paperback romance made it possible for women to freely enjoy their sexuality by escaping the ethical standards of reality. In addition, the paperback romance was an escape from the frustration of love. Romantic love in Korean love novels did not lead to the unification of mind and body, and always ended in tragedy. On the contrary, the paperback romance started with the fear of the girl who felt love for the first time, showed the process of winning over anxiety, confirming love and reaching a happy marriage. Through this, girls understood general love that was not subordinated to the ideology of chastity, and accepted love positively. The process of establishing romance as a genre in Korean culture and the traits of its readers have not yet been sufficiently clarified yet. This paper compared the romance genre with the other love novels of the day, explaining the position and meaning of the romance genre in Korean culture in the 1980s. Through this, we were able to chart the historical development of the Korean romance genre.

• Journal of Korean Medical classics
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• v.18 no.2 s.29
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• pp.1-19
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• 2005

통과대명대저명의가(通過對明代著名醫家), 온보파창시자설기(溫補派創始者薛己)$(1487{\sim}1559)$적생애화의학사상(的生涯和醫學思想), 득출여하결론(得出如下結論): 설기생여의학세가(薛己生於醫學世家), 종소학습유학화의학(從小學習儒學和醫學), 기부사후(其父死後), 체부진입태의원성료의사(替父進入太醫院成了醫士), 지후선후역임태의원이목(之後先後歷任太醫院吏目), 남경태의원원판(南京太醫院院判), 원사등직(院使等職), 병어1540년(44세)기관회향(幷於1540年(44歲)棄官回鄕), 전심여치료환자여저술(專心於治療患者與著述). 설기적저작대부분내(薛己的著作大部分內) 용이의안형식서사(容以醫案形式書寫), 기내용포함내과(其內容包含內科), 외과(外科), 부산과(婦産科), 소아과(小兒科), 침구과(鍼灸科), 치과(齒科), 안과(眼科), 골과(骨科), 본초등(本草等). 기본인친(其本人親) 자저술적유이(自著述的有以)${\ulcorner}$내과적요(內科摘要)${\lrcorner}$위시약12종(爲始約12種), 교주적유이(校注的有以)${\ulcorner}$부인대전양방(婦人大全良方)${\lrcorner}$위시8종(爲始8種), 교감적의서약유6종(校勘的醫書約有6種), 공계대약(共計大約) 유26종지다(有26種之多). 설기수(薛己受)${\ulcorner}$내경(內經)${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$난경(難經)${\lrcorner}$급장원소화금원사대가적영향교심(及張元素和金元四大家的影響較深). 재사대가중(在四大家中), 우기수동원화단계적영향최심(尤其受東垣和丹溪的影響最深). 차외(此外), 가지기수교주의서적영향역교대(可知其受校注醫書的影響亦較大), 기통과박람군서(其通過博覽群書), 대담실천(大膽實踐), 광수자료(廣收資料), 선우총결(善于總結), 최종성료일명의가(最終成了一名醫家). 설기수이동원(薛己受李東垣)${\ulcorner}$비위론(脾胃論)${\lrcorner}$적영향(的影響), 강조비위적중요성(强調脾胃的重要性), 병수차제출비통혈적이론(幷首次提出脾統血的理論) 기여이동원적학설부동지처시(其與李東垣的學說不同之處是), 재치료화쇠토약형허한증시(在治療火衰土弱型虛寒證時), 주장이보화생토지법내치료(主張以補火生土之法來治療), 인위비여신적생리작용호위관련(認爲脾與腎的生理作用互爲關聯), 비토화생정미(脾土化生精微), 이자양신여명문(以滋養腎與命門) 반과래(反過來), 신여명문역대위토기온후작용(腎與命門亦對緯土起溫煦作用); 이재병리방면(而在病理方面), 비토구허(脾土久虛), 가치신허(可致腎虛), 신허즉불능생토(腎虛則不能生土), 역가치비허(亦可致脾虛). 설기적극반대명대의가수금원지유풍(薛己積極反對明代醫家受金元之遺風), 이한양약공하(以寒凉藥攻下), 혹남용지백이강화(或濫用知柏以降火), 극벌생기적작법(克伐生氣的作法), 이주장용편온적약물진행조보(而主張用偏溫的藥物進行調補), 기상용적전인처방유보중익기탕(其常用的前人處方有補中益氣湯), 사물탕(四物湯), 사군자탕(四君子湯), 육군자탕(六君子湯), 독삼탕(獨蔘湯), 삼부탕(蔘附湯), 육미환(六味丸), 팔미환(八味丸), 신기환(腎氣丸), 회양탕(回陽湯), 당귀보혈탕등(當歸補血湯等).

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.379-384
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• 2022

The year 2021 is a monumental year for the history of Korean cinema that inferiority of the sci-fi genre, by the appearance of two sci-fi blockbuster films- produced by Netflix and produced by TVing-at the same time. Coincidentally, both of movies are sci-fi films which appear post-human such as robot and clone. As can be seen in 『Frankenstein』 story, the progenitor of science fictions, the mankind have imagined beings similar to humen or post-human who are another human being for a long time. deals with the unusual subject matter of a space scavenger and a space janitor, and the main character is a robot that very familiar with human. is the story of a man who lives for a limited life protects and accompanies a clone named Seobok who was created as a test subject. This film deals with the philosophical themes like death and eternal life through the existential concerns of two characters. use Korean Shinpa -Korean specific senimental code-sentiment on narrative, and has the character of a road movie set in Korea's geographical space.