The Characteristics of Korean Soap Opera: It’s Focus on the Structure of Family Power Relations with Interrelationship

Abstract

Television drama reflect the dominant values of iedological force in our lives as well as defind the personal life as a certain point of view. Soap opera genre has a many different aspect of valualble of life. It also dealing with power relations with family members of storytelling. Korean typical soap opera narrative often to use conflict between marrage couples to express the hidden unconscious desires and to present the psychological situation of excess characters. The elements of stroy tells the viewers what is the best way to working together as a family members based on the moral aspect of one's life. Korean drama has more 50 years from a half-century of history is protagonist of Hallyu, the Korean television drama, and acute critical of the culture industry has established itself as the contents. The central theme of soap opera was reflecting the dominant values of ideological force in our daily lives. Television drama also reflects the dominant values of an important commodity in the area of cultural industries. In 1962, the first Korea soap opera was called that was taboo in the affairs can be defined as a whole. Crisis had caused a rush of housewives' protests about the drama in terms of storytelling of content. Additionally, the early TBC's drama was the popular soap opera that enjoyed immense popularity in the 1970s in Korea. The story of snubbed in her husband's intemperate affair with a tremendous destiny retraction and background of 1930s. And, it was focus on the traditional Korean family construction of roles that dealing with the parents-in-law with many circumstances. This TV program was very popular that enjoyed a huge popularity of the genre, also film produced even before ended TV drama. The dram and films are both dealing with family narrative story that viewers emotionally involved the episode of stories as well as affected by one's real life. All these considered, this paper propose how family construction related with power relation and interact with family members. The elements of melodrama story will focus on how it tells a storytelling toward of viewers. This paper also exam how relationship of family power relations works, and what is the ideology of interrelationship between family members of storytelling.