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Analyzingkidultsyndromeinoursociety
Adultsstillinwonderland
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ompanieswouldmakeaheatflow
normal adult culture. They are not able to
LeeSo-jung/TheArgus
“IstudiedEnglish
if they care for kidults,” said LG
catchupwiththeflowofcontemporaryadult
EconomicResearchInstituterecently,atthe
culture, still wondering in child’s mind and
beginning of year 2002. As the number of
mood. Those people are afraid of being
onlyinKorea”
kidultshasbeenincreased,theyarewatched
adults, shirking their responsibilities as
bybusinesseswithinterestandevaluatedas
adults. Grown-ups working in a busy and
anewcustomergroup.Theword“kidult”is
stressful city want to release their tense
2
anewconsumptionandculturetrend,andit
feelingsbybeingabsorbedinkidultculture.
000. June. Translated Samjong Consulting Corp.’s corporate restructuring
willbeusedinmanypartsinoursociety.
Through consuming kidult culture, they
proceedings which were reported to J.P. Morgan Co. In August 2000.
wouldshowtheirweaknessandcowardness
CoordinationandinterpretationserviceforBBCWorldNewsteamatthesecondInter-
Kidulthaschildishandpureemotion
towardthesocietyandadulthood.However,
Koreafamilyreunion.2002.Jan.ConferenceInterpretationatHanvitbank......
“Kidult” is the combination of the word
adultshavetobeadultsandchildrenhaveto
Whatasplendidresume!It’suncommonthatauniversitystudentcouldhavesucha
“kid” and “adult”, meaning that 20-30 year
bechildren.Butkidultcultureandkidultsare
goodcareer.Thelististoomuchforthissmallsheetofpaper.
old adults still have the child’s mind and
likely to forget their situation where they
This is Kim Yong-ki
mood.Thewordkidultisusedintwoways,
havetobe.
(E-96) the student who
one is a group of people who consume
has had these notable
Kidultisavitaminforadults
character things or collect toys once played
experiences.
You
with.Theotherisasortofchild’sstoriesand
Ifkidultcultureisspreadinoursocietytoo
probably think, “ He
fairytalesthatareenjoyabletoadultsaswell
widely,theremustbeaproblemthatpeople
must have lived in
tochildren.Inalotofmedia,peoplecansee
areafraidofbeingadult.Ontheotherhand,
America
or
other
kidultstoriesandmood.
kidult can be a vitamin to our society,
English-speaking
People are still interested in buying characher things although they are grown-ups.
Noonecantellwhenkidultfirstappeared
rememberingadults’purememoriesintheir
countries.” If you think
Thesethingscanbevitaltoadultswholiveinthestressfulsociety.
exactly.Butmostexpertssaythatfairytales
childhood and keeping children-like pure
thatway,youarewrong.
orfictionssuchas“Gulliver’sTravel”canbe
emotionmay beneededinsucharoughand
He has never been to
seen as kidult genre that appeared for the
fancy stories. Such kidult consumers
representative that shows the kidult
drysociety.Thegapbetweenadultsandkids
foreigncountries.Hehas
first time. But in 1980s, Hollywood started
appearedaroundtheendof1990s.
syndromeinoursociety.Andsomanyother
canbefilledwiththekidultsculture,sharing
studied English only in
to make films that can appeal to both kids
movies or animations, such as “Shrek”and
common cultural constituents. Parents and
Korea.
and adults, such as “ET” and “Star Wars”.
Kidultsinoursociety
“PocketMonsterIncorporation”areincluded
children can pick up conversation about
A lot of people might
The stories of these movies are based on
Asstatedabove,kidultcanbeseenintwo
inkidultgenre,thatthestoriesarechildishor
“Pocket Monster Incorporation”, together.
be curious about his
fantasygenreandchild’stastes,buttheyalso
parts in the world. The people, who are
childrenstarsinthestoryasheros.
Kidult culture has been created by some
secret ability to be good
canbeattractivetoadults.
called kidults, have a tendency to buy or
entertainmentcompaniesbutitisgoingtobe
at English. He said, “I
It is 1990s that kidult has been used in
collect character things or toys. Lego, a
Thedarksidesofkidultculture
a big syndrome in earnest, as seen in the
just memorized many
earnest by Walt Disney as to gather more
blocktoycompany,saidthatthenumberof
However, kidult syndrome has some
“Harry Potter” series being popular all over
Englishsentences.”From
adult visitors to their animation. Disney
adult consumers has increased to be larger
negative aspects. First, many people may
theworldandmorekidultgoodsbeingsold.
an early age, he listened
KimYong-ki(E-96)
producedanimationsforkidsbuttheyfeltit
than the number of children, since 1999.
over-consume character goods even though
The movie “Star Wars”, which predicted a
to English cassette tapes
KimYu-kyung/TheArgus
wasnotenoughforonlykidstomakealotof
Known as the most famous cat character in
they are expensive. Most characters have
blast whenever they were going to be
over and over to
money. Therefore, they got to make
Japan, Hello Kitty also has attended many
images that make their prices higher. As to
released,isgoingtobereleasedinMaythis
memorizewholesentences.Andinhisschooldays,helearnedhisEnglishtextbooksby
animations that can be enjoyable to adults,
adultfansaroundtheworld.Mostconsumers
keep those images, the goods tend to be in
year and it will gather many adult fans as
heartwhichmeanshememorizedeverythinginthetextbooks.Hesaid“BackthenI
too. Its first masterpiece was “The Little
who buy character goods or plastic models
highprice.Mostconsumersarelikelytobuy
well.Readersalsocanbeakidultifyouare
thoughtitwasaninefficientwayoflearningEnglish,butnowIcansaywithconfidence
Mermaid” and their adventure was
are 20s, more than teenagers and even
them, though they are expensive, thinking
involved in those examples stated in the
thatit’sthebestwaytoimproveyourwritingandconversationskills.”Healsoadded
successful.
youngerchildren.
theyareworthinhighprice.Thesamegoes
article.
thathepracticeddictationssteadilytoprogresshislisteningability.
After the Mermaid’s success many
Moreover, most of the movies recently
withplasticmodels.Kidultsbuyandcollect
KimhasplayedanactivepartinUniversityStudentInterpreters’Association(USIA.)
animations belonging to kidult genre have
released are included in kidult genre. The
themeventhoughtheyareexorbitantlyhigh.
from1997.Hebecamethe26thpresidentoftheUSIA.
ByLeeSo-jung
beenmade. Thosetrendsinculturelinkedto
movie “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s
Second,ifkidultsaredeeplyfondofthese
However, he said that at first he didn’t have much interest in either translation or
AssociateEditorofCultureSection
consumption of character products or of
Stone”, introduced as a fantasy fiction, is
kidultculture,theyareregressiveagainstthe
interpretation. He had found pleasure just in studying English. He said “During the
periodofmyserviceinKATUSA(KoreanAugmentationTroopstotheUnitedStates
Army)Itookaninterestinactingasaninterpreterandtranslater.Therefore,whenthe
termforthemilitaryservicewasover,Isettoworkinearnest.”
Monet,springwrappedwithlight
What were the memorable situations which he has had in his work? Kim Yong-ki
said,“OnAugust2000,attheSouth-NorthKoreafamilyreunion,Ihadachanceto
interpret for the reporters sent from the BBC. It was a tough job. The place was
crowdedwithagreatnumberofpeople,andreporterswereonlynuisancestofamilies
hill there is another woman and boy. They
conceptofpaintingandappliedittoexterior
who met after decades of separation. But I had to do something. I pushed my way
also are likely to going down the field,
landscapes. His paintings are flooded with
throughthecrowdtohaveatalkwithafamily.Ifeltthenecessityofsomethingbeyond
followingthetwopeopleaheadofthem.
sunlight, they are Impressionistic with
thelinguistictalent.”
This picture, supposedly painted in 1873,
shimmering, luminous colors. About 1890,
Heandhisfellowworkerstranslatedabout1,000pagesforsubmissiontotheJ.P.
was exhibited in the Impressionists
hebegantopaintpicturesinseries,showing
Morgen.Hesaid,“Wehadtoworkovernight.Itwasagreatdealoftrouble,butitwasa
exhibitionthenextyear.Itisthetypicalstyle
thesamesubjectundervariousconditionsof
worthwhilejob.”Headded,“Ithinkatranslatingjobisahighlyintellectualactivity,so
of Impressionism. It is one of Claude
lightandatmosphere.
Iamattractedbyitscharm.”
Monet’s most famous paintings, perhaps
The word Impressionism came into
KimsaidthatthroughouthislifeintheUSIA,hehaslearnedmanyvaluablethings,
becauseofitsbeautifulandpeacefulscenery.
existencewhenahostilecriticlookedatone
not to mention English. As a president of the USIA, he has been responsible for
He arrived in Argenteuil, a small town (at
of his paintings, “Impression : Sunrise”, in
personnelmanagementandalsohastakenchargeoffinancialproblems.Itwasahard
thattimeinFrance)in1872andduringthese
1874. The impressionist style of painting is
task,butithasadvancedhim.Kimmentionedwithasmile,”Ithinktheseexperiences
first two years he was a happy man as he
characterizedchieflybyconcentrationonthe
willhelpmetoliveacomfortablesociallife.”
lived in a beautiful house with a pretty
general impression produced by a scene or
Kim Yong-ki expressed his satisfaction with HUFS. “ Thanks to HUFS, I’ve
garden, had a young wife, Camille, and a
objectandtheuseofunmixedprimarycolors
experiencedmanybenefits,whichareavailableonlythroughHUFS.Ithasapractical
littleson,Jean.Inthemiddleofthispicture
andsmallstrokestosimulateactualreflected
languagecurriculumdifferentfromotheruniversities.Icanstudynotonlyliteraturebut
thehouseonthefieldseemstobeMonet’s.
light. The painter who established
also linguistics and other language courses in general studies. I’m satisfied with its
In Monet’s paintings, there are usually a
ImpressionismwasManetandhehadagreat
specialcharacterwithaninternationalatmosphere.”
womanandaboywhoarepossiblyhisfirst
impact on Monet, Renoir and other
KimintendstogotoGraduateSchoolofInterpretationandTranslation,theGSIT,or
wife,Camille,andson,Jean,whomheloved
Impressionists. Monet, like most
getajobinaforeignfirm.“Icannotsayforcertainbecausethesedaysmanycollege
somuch.CamilleandJeanseemtoappearin
Impressionists, used fast drawings and
graduatesfaceatightjobmarket,soitisimpolitetoaskwhattheyaregoingtodointhe
“PoppiesatAraenteuil”byClandemonet,1873,inMuseed’Orsay,Paris.
thispicture,also.
unmixed colors, coloring on a canvas
future.”
Claude Monet, the French Impressionist
directly.Monetalwayswantedtocapturethe
HegavesometipsforfreshmenatHUFS,“Don’tspendyourtimeunderthestressof
I
n spring people wish to have every
flowers and feel warm breezes blowing on
painter, was born in Paris in 1840 and is
flow of light changes in every moment and
theunemploymentproblem.Broadenyourexperiencesbytravelingorgettinginvolved
flower blossom and leaf turn to green
thefield.ThisissaidthattheartofMonetis
consideredtobethemostoutstandingfigure
praised the beauty of things changed by
inschoolactivities.”
when the long and dark winter has gone.
like a window hanging on the wall. This
among the Impressionists. Monet was a
light. His efforts to hold light and
They are waiting for warm breezes instead
means,perhaps,Monettransplantsthenature
caricaturistasateen-ager,showinghistalent
atmosphere made his works lovable and
cold and sharp wind. Looking at this
seen through the window into drawings on
in drawing. Meeting his early mentor
comfortable. The reason people love his
painting, their willingness for the spring
canvas.Appreciativegazesgototheskyand
Boudin, he converted to paint out-of-doors
paintings is because he saw nature honestly
ByKimYu-kyung
becomesmoredesirable.Thepaintingseems
fieldsthenturntoawomanunderaparasol
scenes. During 2 years’ military service in
andkeptnature’sbeautifullight.
to be from the perspective that people see
andaboyholdingflowersinhishands.They
Algeria, he discovered an impression of
ReporterofNationalSection
through the window, they cannot only see
seem to have walked between the red
lightsandcolorsandtheyleadhimtobean
ByLeeSo-jung/TheArgus
the view but also can smell the scents of
flowers blooming behind them. Up on the
Impressionist. Monet had adopted Manet’s
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