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Yi, We Jung. "Redrawing the Division Lines? Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South Korean Webtoon Secretly, Greatly." positions 28. (2020): 701–27. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
DOI: 10.1215/10679847-8606404
BibTeX citation key: Yi2020
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Keywords: "Secretly, Cold War, Greatly", Korea, Webcomics
Creators: Yi
Collection: positions
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Attachments   URLs   https://muse.jhu.edu/article/772330
Abstract
This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly. In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy of national division with the sensibilities of the millennial generation. Feeling that their lives are rendered ingyŏ (surplus) under neoliberal governance, the precarious youth empathetically relate to the history-laden image of spies, whose belonging in society has been disavowed or forsaken. Appropriating earlier aesthetic conventions, Secretly, Greatly thus offers content and a channel through which the surplus generation can express and share their sense of misplacement in the present. In addressing such remediation of inherited memories, this study critically attends to the webtoon’s formal qualities that evoke affective engagement and connective practices in the digital space. By fostering multisensory interactions with the kanch’ŏp-ingyŏ personas on the screen, the graphic power of comics invites the viewer to participate in the characters’ boundary-crossing movements against the geopolitical backdrop of divided Korea. Nonetheless, the webtoon ultimately leaves the survival of North Korean others beyond the realm of the visible because their ordinary coexistence in the South is yet to be imagined.
  
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