A Review of The Korean Drama "Burning" E-Book

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Essay from the year 2023 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Asien-Orient-Institut), course: Cultural and Social Transformation of Contemporary Korea, language: English, abstract: Burning (버닝) released in 2018, is a Korean psychological thriller, co-written, produced, and directed by director Lee Chang-dong. The drama is an alteration of a short story titled “Barn Burning” written by Haruki Murakami. Lee Chang-dong re-contextualizes the piece to exhibit an exclusive narrative of economic inequality, loneliness, and other hardships of an entire generation of young Koreans in recent years, through the eyes of protagonist Lee Jong-su, a working-class young man from Paju, South Korea. By submitting an overview to the story, this paper includes a summary of the plot with emphasis on the life of Lee Jung-So. In the latter part the essay will take a closer look at the important motifs Burning highlights, mainly focusing on the theme of the pervasive feeling of loneliness, not unusual for adolescents in today’s world.