베이비 붐 세대와 학창시절 향수 - ‘교복 추억 여행’을 중심으로 (Baby Boomers and Nostalgia for School Days: Focused on ‘School Uniform Nostalgia Tours’)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국사회사학회
· 수록지 정보 : 사회와역사(구 한국사회사학회논문집) / 110호 / 391 ~ 430페이지
· 저자명 : 정미량

초록

이 글은 지나간 학창시절을 상징하는 기표로 등장한 검정색 교복을 향수 상품화하는 ‘추억의 경주 수학 여행’에 1970년대 학창시절을 보냈던 많은 수의 베이비붐 세대가 참여하고 있는 이유를 밝혀보고자 하였다. 즉, ‘교복 추억 여행’을 통해베이비 붐 세대의 학창시절에 대한 향수가 지닌 정서적 지향점을 알아보고자 하였다. 그 결과, 이 여행 상품은 한국 사회의 학연 중시 풍토와 학창 시절의 향수를접목한 관광 마케팅 상품이며, 여행 참가자들은 현재 사회적으로 성공했을 가능성이 큰 사람들임을 알게 되었다. 또한 이 여행 상품은 과거의 기억과 상상력을 통해건립된 구성물로서, 건립된 구성물은 객관적이지도 실제적이지도 않다는 것을 파악하게 되었다. 따라서 여행 참가자들은 베이비 붐 세대 중 과거로부터 안전한 거리감을 느낄 수 있는 사람들이며, 이러한 거리감이 오히려 이들을 향수에 빠지게 하는 것으로 해석된다. 더불어, 과거 학창시절 체험의 현실적 동일성 여부와 관계없이 영원히 닿을 수 없는 학창시절, 그 순수한 원형에의 현실적 갈망이 많은 베이비붐 세대의 가슴 속에서 학창시절을 이상화시키며 ‘교복 추억 여행’에 동참하도록이끌고 있다고 보인다.

영어초록

For this research, attention was paid to a scene inside today’s middle-aged through a phenomenon of purchasing a nostalgia good called ‘a retrospective school excursion to Gyeongju.’ It first looked at how baby boomers interpret their symbolism embedded in school uniforms during their school days in the 1970s, during a time in which there was a move to change black school uniforms to nostalgia goods, or ‘retrospective school uniform tours.’ Those black uniforms symbolized school days in the 1970s. As a result, it was found that baby boomers missed the era of control and surveillance when the government was making every effort to cultivate industrial workers who adjusted themselves to the system in order to rapidly achieve industrialization after the May 16 military coup. For those people who were students when the military coup took place, their school days were not remembered as a painful or traumatic experience. They had already overcome the past by which a sense of safe distance was secured; the pains of yesteryear and conflicts of those days had disappeared and they were feeling happy while calling back those days as sweet and beautiful memories. ‘School uniform memory tours’ are realistically where the tendency of the Korean society lay stress on academic sectionalism and nostalgia marketing products, but the hearts of people participating in ‘school uniform memory tours’ run back to the past at the moment, when students wore school uniforms. They become sorrowful and sentimental and pursued the nostalgia of their past school days. In their minds, they were free, passionate, warm and innocent during those school days. They can never go back to that time. Their longing for the pure original form shines as beautiful light in minds of many middle-aged people and leads them to join ‘school uniform memory tours’.

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