1990년 이후 재일잡지미디어 지형 고찰

This study aimed to summarize the genealogy of the magazines that Zainichi Koreans have published since 1990, and to examine the significance of the trends of change that can be observed. The consciousness of the members of Zainichi Korean community became individualized in the 1990s, when the magazine media of Zainichi Koreans played a remarkably lesser role as a forum for discourse. In the past, such magazines had exerted a dominant cultural influence on various areas of the community, but they gradually lost their dominance in almost all areas, including literature, politics, history and popular culture. In terms of the number of magazines published, many Zainichi Korean magazines were still published even in the 1990s, including the in-house magazines or journals of various organizations, and lifestyle magazines. As the general literary magazines, however, which had played a pivotal role in the world of Zainichi Korean magazines, had markedly less influence on the community, the areas such magazines covered began to be sharply limited from this time. This change in the circumstances of the magazine media was a phenomenon that the Japanese publishing market was also experiencing. This is because the market was reorganizing to focus on fashion magazines, a trend that meant the magazines in the general literature, current affairs, and politics sectors were gradually reduced, which indicates a change in the function of Japanese magazine media. On the other hand, the launching of Zainichi Korean magazines has not only been rapidly declining since the 2000s, but they also no longer function as a forum for discourse to bind together the Zainichi Korean community. This seems to be because the distinctiveness of the ‘Zainichi Korean’ media failed to embrace these changes, and instead served as rather obvious limits on them, as the consciousness of Zainichi Koreans was diversified by generation. This strongly supports the argument that the role and function of Zainichi Korean magazines started on the downward path irretrievably in the 1990s, which was a turning point. On the other hand, another perspective is also considered to be reasonable that the influence Japanese magazines maintain over Japan society may open up the possibility of a new consumption trend for Zainichi Korean magazines. This is because new experiments in the Zainichi Korean magazine market are currently underway; e.g. in the early 2000s, the first women’s general literary magazine, Chinihuneokoge (地に舟をこげ) was founded; and in 2015 Koro (航路) was launched, which aimed to rehabilitate the Zainichi Korean general literary magazine. Many Zainichi Korean Magazines are now seeking a solution given the changes faced by the Zainichi Korean community.