Research Article
A Semiotic Study about the Sacred and the Profane as a Double-edged Semiosis of Outsiders: Focusing on the Semiotic Interpretation of Japanese "Yokai" and Korean "Doggaebi" contents
Sogang Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University
Published: August 2010 · Vol. 29 No. 2 · pp. 133-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33334/sieas.2010..59.133
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between outsiders(이방인), Korean ‘’ and Japanese ‘, based on the previous studies. Outsiders is the concept related to the time. The Present is always a new beginning. Japanese contents and Korean contents are a present semiosis rather than a past semiosis of the grotesque beings. Japanese Yogai and Korean Doggaebi was born with Cultural immigrants. They are the contemporary inventions by modern people. Critically considering Barthes’s argument that myth is not a fixed thoughts, but a transformative thought, we may need to compare Japanese contents with Korean contents. Japanese contents and Korean contents are enjoined with various cultural contents. This article examines three aspects. First, the double-edged semiosis of outsiders is examined through the lens of the sacred and the profane. Through this, we will discuss the ludism of modern cultural fear. Second, we need to look into the various aspects of the process of creating Japanese contents and Korean contents. In this course of producing, we can see that they have polyphony, namely in that the signified and are sliding into the signifier. Thirdly, Japanese contents and Korean have the curing antibody images of modern cultural wound. Outsiders Japanese and Korean are reborn beyond the semiosis of the sacred and the profane and played with media.