여가와 관광개념 형성에 투영된 모더니티와 오리엔탈리즘의 변증법

The Dialectics of Modernity and Orientalism Reflected on the Formation of the Leisure and Tourism Pattern: A Case Study of the Japan Ruling-era

The aim of our research is to study, using the method by Edward Said’s cultural theory ‘orientalism’ the cultural trend of western ‘modernity’ which became increasing imported during the Japanese rule-era, and its influence on the association of leisure in South Korea. Specifically, we find the fact that Korean leisure pattern reflects how the Intelligentsia in the Japanese colonial era adopted the occidental culture. It is because that was when the western style leisure, in the name of ‘modernity’, was introduced to Korea (mainly to elite group though) in full force. But, the concept ‘modernity’ was spread into Korean people’s daily life often in a more twisted fashion, and westernized leisure patterns became rooted in Korean society by Japanese transformation. Especially, the Intelligentsia came to recognize the superiority of the occidental leisure to Korean one. In other words, the modernity went through ‘Acculturation’, as transformed through Japanese-style orientalism. As a consequence, the Korean modern-leisure pattern was formed with complex relations among modernity and Japanese colonialism, which appeared to have influenced even today’s Korean leisure and tour patterns.