Technologized tae kwon do millennialism: Robot Taekwon V and the assertion of a triumphant South Korean national identity

Abstract

Robot Taekwon V gave birth to a desirable future vision of the South Korean nation as a saviour of the world based on technologized tae kwon do millennialism. This concept promises a utopian future that takes advantage of the nation's economic transformation with President Park Chung-hee's three Five-Year Plans and martial transformation with General Choi Hong-hi's invention of tae kwon do. Director Kim Cheong-gi crystallized this national transformation and created a fictional hero to exorcise the major historical traumas that befell the Korean peninsula, thereby creating a reinvigorated new image of South Korea as it asserted its new-found national identity.

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