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Article: http://list.or.kr/content/love-reinventing-romantic-love
Journal: list_Books from Korea
Issued Date: -
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: SOUTH KOREA
City: Seoul
Book: -
Writer: Eun Heekyung , Jeong Yi Hyun , Youn Dae-Nyeong

About the Author

Eun Heekyung
Birth : 1959 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Heekyung
Family Name : Eun
Korean Name : 은희경
ISNI : 0000000113700223
Works : 52

Jeong Yi Hyun
Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Yi Hyun
Family Name : Jeong
Korean Name : 정이현
ISNI : 0000000073307071
Works : 18

Youn Dae-Nyeong
Birth : 1962 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Dae-Nyeong
Family Name : Youn
Korean Name : 윤대녕
ISNI : 000000008130556X
Works : 21

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Love: Reinventing Romantic Love By Kim Dongshik on Nov 09 2014 08:15:03 Special Edition 2011 Romantic love is a historical phenomenon that appeared with the advent of modernism. Today, it is common knowledge that people get married because they love one another. But it was not until after the advent of romantic love that love became a condition for marriage and the causal relationship between love and marriage was established. Before romantic love became the social norm, people were often given the freedom to pursue romantic love after they had fulfilled the duty of marriage. Romantic love, no matter how you look at it, has a commanding influence on the concept and image of love today. Romantic love was a new freedom that emerged with modernism. An affirmation of individual freedom, along with romantic love, was more widely recognized, and a new order was built on the freedom of sentiments. People started to yearn for purely romantic relationships based on emotional connections, rather than class, power, or other external factors, and in the process a new theory of subjectivity called “affective individualism” emerged, giving rise to the passionate romance -> marriage -> home sweet home model. After romantic love, individual lives became open projects that allowed room for new desires and new anxieties, and love became a fateful process of enchantment on the way to a complete life.

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