The Research On The Foreign Images Of The South Korea’s Separation Theme Films Since 21 Century

The separation between the South Korea and the North Korea theme has been one of the most favorite creation resources for the South Korea filmmakers. This article aims to explore the shaping of foreign images in the movies about Korean war and the separation between the South Korea and the North Korea since the new century. The emphasis is on combining with the Korean society culture, national characters and pattern of international and national relations, etc and analyzes what kind of roles in the narrative of North Korea, the United States, Japan and China play in these films, the relationships between these countries and the South Korea and the reasons behind this description. Finally also tries to explore whether these movies are really hit the division problem, or it’s just a packing element.About these countries, as the other half of the divided Korean peninsula, North Korea, in the movies about separation since the new century, more and more tends to show a kind of individual and government stripping state. North Korea’s individual images are more and more humanized, abandons the ideological opposition, try to create characters by a way that can easily empathize, and pay attention to the survival conditions of the North Korean. In the opposite, the certain factions of the government or the government to assume play the roles of the enemies. As the other countries but closely linked with the South Korea, the United States, China and Japan, are mainly be created as the oppressors in the movies, becoming the obstacles in the path to democracy and independence of South Korea. Among them, as an ally of South Korea, the United States carries a complex emotions, "Pro-american" and "anti-american" emotional staggered, well reflected in the films. Combined with the resentments to Japan and China in history and today, reflects a "Korean" national imagination. The cause of this kind of imagination is very complex, at the same time, this kind of imagination is also a path for South Korea getting rid of the "pieces" status and having independent among the nations of the world.Movies and social reality reflected each other, as a part of the culture industry, on the one hand, helps South Korean people to complete a psychological satisfaction and recognition, and finally win the box offices. But in the meantime, it is worth nothing that there are not a lot of movies thinking this problem very deeply, but just treating it as a unique coat to help decorate the story, trying to attract the South Koreans and the world’s attentions.