On modernisation and propaganda during dictatorship

http://www.koreafilm.org/publica/book21.html [ FILMStory Series 04 ] Touring the Modernization of the Fatherland - Park Chung-hee Governement’s Propaganda Drive, 10 Years of “Paldogangsan”

2007 | 8,000won | 152 page | 130×190 | soft cover

This book, written by Kim Han-sang, researcher at the Korean Film Archive, is an interesting plan to tour the sections of the modern state building project during the period of the Park Chung-hee administration through the “Paldogangsan” Series. “Paldogangsan (the Land of Korea)”, the first book of a series that was produced in 1967, was also presented as a popular KBS drama series in 1974. Kim Han-sang pays attention to this: In fact this series was typical of the Park Chung-hee Era’s propaganda. The author insists that by smoothly containing Park Chung-hee government’s things from its detailed policies to its ultimate utopia, the “Paldogangsan” series integrates the audience into its people, its nation. Various characteristics appearing in the movie, such as the family comedy mode and the family·gender distinction policy, speed depiction and the construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway, space depiction and the New Community Movement, the travel movie-style characteristics and the national integration policy, etc. are described in association with the then political·social reality.