AUTHOR=Bai Song Xu 

TITLE=False Redemption—The Narrative Pattern of Korean Art Cinema

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication

VOLUME=7

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.753933

DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2022.753933

ISSN=2297-900X

ABSTRACT=<p>Korean art cinema has an undeniable <italic>han</italic> favor, which is considered scholarly as the most characteristic aesthetic category of Korea. The iconic auteurs who pushed Korean brands to the international stages, such as Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk, and Lee Chang Dong, did not only gain their fame with their <italic>han</italic> films, but also prompted the dominated style, which is the <italic>han</italic> motif. This article extracted the common narrative pattern of the internationally acclaimed Korean art films by comparing and reading the films under the assumed pattern of false redemption. The parallel Christian redemption is a good supplement for the better understanding of false redemption. The false redemption is the most popular and effective pattern for expressing the <italic>han</italic> motif.</p>