Abstract

This article aims to prove that the women are intermediary beings to solve the postwar conflict and lead national unification in the process of state-leading modernization through a discourse of "Apre-guerre"(postwar women). The Fifties is the times when they laid the cornerstone of the direction for state modernization while healing the pains of war and settling the postwar social division. The modernization in Korea went through anti-modernization or re-traditionalization. The "Apre-guerre", the modern women are crucial to settle the contradiction and conflict taking place in the course of forming the Korean developing model. As making a theory of social chaos or crisis through a discourse of Apre-guerre, the postwar women's magazines managed sexual desire and established the image of innocent women through a new sense of virtue, new theory of love. The Apre-guerre is a structure of discourse coming into the world in the process of being joined with vanity, extravagance, prostitute-ness, imitating of Western-style and egoism and so on into the body of modern women. In fact, a discourse of Apre-guerre is an emblem that was made by envying towards the empire for colony people, abasing himself in the extreme and feeling his own superiority to others to conceal that. The emblem was formed by that an army in the United States of America became a new model for Korea to imitate since 1945 when the army had stationed in Korea. The women's magazines is a place where the post-colonial division was exposed. This article tries to combine both the role and characteristic of the women's magazines in fifties, as examining how they settled the secret conflict of least modern state and how they disclosed the division unconsciously.