Analysis of POLICE Portrayal Patterns in KOREA Crime Films

This paper analyzed Korea crime films in 2000 s, extracted the characteristics and problems of ‘the police’ portrayal patterns and searched for the right direction for the reproduction of the mass media of the police in the future. Particularly, it examined the portrayal patterns of the police, focusing on the box office movies <Public Enemy>(2002) and <Memories of Murder>(2003), which were produced and screened since the 2000s . Related to the common model after that, I tried to find a way to improve the image of the police properly. The theoretical background of this paper is based on the cultural contextual analysis methodology. Film is a multi-layered prod-uct formed in an influence relation with various discourses derived from society, rather than an embodiment of its own autonomous and independent meaning. The three common aspects are shown as follows. The three films commonly deal with violent crimes committed during the same period of serial murder , and they also created a model for police by creating specific meaning for crime and police . Specifically, <Memories of Murder> repro-duces the violence of the police, and <Public Enemy> reproduces police image of the illegal small heroism. There-fore, it is required that the efforts of the police in order to settle the old remnants and negative factors of the police that have been going on to date and to form the image of the scientific, rational and ethical police.