抄録
The purpose of this study is to make characteristics of the ban on Japanese popular culture in Korea clear and to examine roles of mass media such as newspaper and television broadcast in the system of the ban. This study indicated that the ban which has been practiced and maintained in ambiguous and complex contexts was 'convention' not 'law'. Particularly, it emphasized Nationalism discourse in Korean society after World War II and economic interests of the media industry system as important conditions. And roles of media were contradictory in the system of the ban as 'convention'.
