Popular Culture In The Context Of The Aesthetic Features Of Korean Dramas

In recent years, the South Korean soap opera has obtained great success rely on its accurate market positioning. Why can the South Korean soap opera obtain the support of the mainstream culture as well as the favor of the populance, though it is standing firmly in the popular culture camp? This article attempts to carry on a preliminary research on it though analyzing the esthetic function of the South Korean soap opera. And the article also would like to give some enlightenment to the homemade soap opera if it is possible.The first chapter of this article elaborates three most typical popular culture character of the South Korean soap opera: commercial, typological and secularization. The commercial character refers to the production, the circulation and the final goal of the South Korean soap opera is to pursue the biggest commercial interest, thus has sacrificed the artistic originality in this process, so on this causes the typological and the secularization unavoidable. The typological characteristic refers to the plot development of the South Korean soap opera mostly to patternize, in detail it designs also really unusual fresh idea. The secularization is mainly refers to the content of the South Korean soap opera always revolving the gossip ordinary life. The esthetic functions of the South Korean soap opera following establish on this kind of popular culture linguistic environment is closely related with these three characteristics.The second, third, fourth chapters of this article are the principal part of this article.According to the accepting process of people, these parts elaborate three kinds of main esthetic functions of the South Korean soap opera step by step. Under commercial interest obligation, the South Korean soap opera have demonstrated all sorts of bodily beauty, while satisfies the people's desire, also has completed people's self-approval and the social identity through the consumer behavior. But the imitation also causes that the entire social esthetic individuality forfeits.After initial sense organ stimulation, the audiences start to pay attention to the content of the South Korean soap opera. In order to attract the audience, the South Korean soap opera considered fully audience's esthetic experience and future esthetic anticipation, and diligently meets its needs. On the one hand, the South Korean soap opera closes to average person's daily life vigorously, and reflects each kind of contradiction and the conflict in life. On the other hand, the South Korean soap opera also provides solution to these contradictions and the conflicts, although it is unsuitable in the real life, but the audience always believes that all in the soap opera is reasonable. Through this process, the audience may divulge the dissatisfaction to real life by one safe way. Thus, the South Korean soap opera completes the second esthetic function - - emotion to divulge the function.The third esthetic function of the South Korean soap opera is the ideology and enlightenment function. Any artistic work is product of certain ideology, the South Korean soap opera is not exceptional. As a result of its popular culture characteristic, the South Korean soap opera has the model popular culture ideology; At the same time, South Korean soap opera is been impossible to be separated from the control of the mainstream ideology completely, it is the product after two compromises mutually. Be affected with the tradition Confucian thoughts, the mainstream ideology which the South Korean soap opera transmits is mainly Confucianism ethics morals. Certainly, for does not cause audience's repugnance, this kind of enlightened function is not displays directly.These there esthetic functions seem to be incompatible, but they simultaneously manifest in the South Korean soap opera. Because of the"hybridity"characteristic of the South Korean culture. The Confucianist culture rules South Korean several hundred years, until now still occupies the very important status in South Korean's life. But for the past many years along with the Western modern thought's invasion, more and more young people stresses that the individuality freedom and the liberation, so this has the conflict contradiction with the Confucianism culture. Objectively speaking, all of these have the Merit and the Shortcoming. Therefore, both fuses in together is the important reason of several esthetic function of the South Korean soap opera.