Korean Drama As Educational Tools That Develop Mutual Understanding Between Countries

DOI

10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Korean drama, educational tools

Abstract

This paper presents a Korean drama as educational tools for public. When the word of education appears, most of people will related it with books. People often to overlook it but there are many ways for education besides books. Meanwhile, drama have been categorized as entertainment medium. Purpose of this study is to changes the perception of drama as only for the entertainment but also can be educational methods. With the existence of Cultural Proximity Theory in the drama, mutual understanding can be develop within the country and automatically it will become the educational tool for public. The four elements in Cultural Proximity that educates public while they are watching drama are language proximity, visual proximity, culture proximity and value proximity. Winter Sonata play an important role in raising up the tourism industry and promoting wonderful places in South Korea. This drama also helps viewers to understand the Korean culture. Besides that, statistics of Singaporeans learn Korean Language increased about 60% because of their interest towards Korean drama. This study aims to identify, to analyse and to review the Cultural Proximity elements that leads Korean drama to become one of the successful tools in education. In addition, the study could be reference to Malaysian film and entertainment industry. This study also refers the previous study that related to drama and Cultural Proximity studies. It used a qualitative approach to identify the perception and response of respondents towards the Cultural Proximity elements leads Korean drama to become education tool.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Farah Nabila Hamdan
AU  - Norlis Ismail
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - Korean Drama As Educational Tools That Develop Mutual Understanding Between Countries
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th UPI-UPSI International Conference 2018 (UPI-UPSI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 60
EP  - 67
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.11
DO  - 10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.11
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