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During the 1920s and 1930 in Korea, the concepts of “woman”, “man” and “heterosexual system” in a modern sense were being newly constructed while the colonial disciplinary power, medical power, and the capitalistic consumerism. By analyzing the representations of the typical features that constituted the boundary of the ‘Heterosexuality’ discourse―pervert, hermaphrodite, transvestite, and female homosexual’s, this study examines the dynamics of the construction of normal man and woman. Especially, this study focuses on the ways in which the discipline functions to produce the binary gender norms. Examining the construction of the boundaries of “heterosexual system”, “woman” and “man” by the matter of “pervert” sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s, this study reveals the historicity of “heterosexism” as a modern construction.