ABSTRACT

While the number of North Korean defectors in South Korea has increased, their portrayal in the mainstream media remains marginal and biased. Given this context, this article explores how North Korean defectors have gradually engaged in self-representation through new media technologies, such as personal broadcasting on digital platforms. In so doing, it reveals that the defectors at least partially challenge the dominant representation or lack of representation of North Koreans and seek self-representation. Drawing on scholarly literature and textual analysis of North Korean defectors’ self-representation through Internet personal broadcasting, this study examines how defectors explore different ways of negotiating the dominant construction of themselves as the other of South Koreans.

摘要

虽然在韩国的脱北者人数有所增加，但主流媒体对他们的描述仍然边缘化和有偏见。在此背景下，本文探讨了脱北者如何通过新媒体技术（例如数字平台上的个人广播）逐步进行自我表现。这样做表明，脱北者至少在一定程度上挑战了朝鲜人的主导代表性或缺乏代表性，并寻求自我代表。本研究利用对脱北者通过互联网个人广播进行自我陈述的学术文献和文本分析，研究脱北者如何探索不同的方式来协商将自己作为韩国人的另一个主导结构。