抄録
We often come across in Korea a sight of the demonstrators burning themselves to death. By such a sensational method, they intend to protest against the political power,as well as to appeal to the public. Not only the existing activists but the ordinary people accept their assertions positively and energetically because they want to put the blame for the "political suicide" on the society filled with absurdity. They hold a ceremony to set the dead up as <yolsa> and to try to calm their grudge, which reflects the frustration experienced by the living. Such process can be regarded as a kind of the "social drama" based on a root-paradigm peculiar to the Korean culture.
According to their suicide notes and various kinds of statements, the rootparadigm concerning a view of life and death has two factors; one is ethics of (filial piety) coming from Confucianism, and the other is a mechanism of <han>(Ressentiment) and <han-puri>, of which process is not simply reciprocal but existential. Both the dead and the living must grope the meanings of accepting the death through these two factors. They act on both the dead and the living based on the idea that there is a metaphoric relationship between their real parents and their mother country, that is unified Korea as social parents.
