KONSTRUKSI RELASI PERCINTAAN DALAM DRAMA KOREA “GUARDIAN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD”
Abstract
This theses is a study of romance relations constructed in the popular Korean drama Guardian: The Lonely and Great God or Goblin which is broadcast on TvN television media. This study selected several episodes from 16 episodes in this Korean drama. Korean drama that has this fantasy-romance genre highlights the love story of two couples between Goblin with the Bride (Ji Eun Tak) and Wang Yeo with Sunny. The analysis used of this research is the Semiotic analysis of John Fiske. Where the analysis uses the three levels to know the meanings and signs. This three levels consisting the level of reality, level of representation, and ideological level. The romance relationship researched in this Korean drama based on gender relations constructed by the people of South Korea through its culture. In its history, South Korea’s gender relations still construct Confucian culture that can’t be separated from popular media constructions. The result of this study are the construction of the soft-masculinity of women in South Korea and romantic expression which are both formed through Confucian culture.