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History of the Madang Geki The importation of Korean student protest theater (madang guk) into Japan included its counter-colonial position on modernization and urbanization in Korea. The processes of urbanization were seen to include, at their core, metropolitan practices and desires that ignored and debased (or disembedded) local, small-scale social practices in favor of those imported from the U.S. and Japan. And the availability of cheap goods and commodities on the international market jeopardized the livelihoods the farmer and the artisan, and worked against organized labor. But madang plays did not (as Japanese television announced, and as Yan [1988, and personal communication] asserts) start in villages, but rather on university campuses. |
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