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This paper examines a notion of nationhood held by the North and South Koreans from two inter-related perspectives, political and cultural, by analyzing two films dealing with the Korean War (1950-3). The films chosen for this study are a North Korean film Wolmido/The Wolmi Island (1982, Cho Kyeongsun) and a South Korean one Nambugun/The Southern Guerrilla Forces (1989, Chung Ji-Young). As I discuss more details throughout this paper, the two films reconstruct the war experiences differently. The differences reveal the conflicting ideas of contemporary Koreans regarding their self-identity as a divided nation. Despite the differences in interpreting the origin and consequences of the war, both of the films express the North and South Koreans’ strong commitment of their belief to single nationhood, regardless of their current partition into the two states and the resultant political conflicts between them.
This paper examines a notion of nationhood held by the North and South Koreans from two inter-related perspectives, political and cultural, by analyzing two films dealing with the Korean War (1950-3). The films chosen for this study are a North Korean film Wolmido/The Wolmi Island (1982, Cho Kyeongsun) and a South Korean one Nambugun/The Southern Guerrilla Forces (1989, Chung Ji-Young). As I discuss more details throughout this paper, the two films reconstruct the war experiences differently. The differences reveal the conflicting ideas of contemporary Koreans regarding their self-identity as a divided nation. Despite the differences in interpreting the origin and consequences of the war, both of the films express the North and South Koreans’ strong commitment of their belief to single nationhood, regardless of their current partition into the two states and the resultant political conflicts between them.
