Clowns, crimes, and capital: popular crime-comedies in post-crisis Korea.

The article discusses the context of several popular crime-comedies in South Korea. It discusses the mix of generic modes among the modern Korean popular cinema as well as the influence they create in expressing social criticism within the capitalist culture sector. It determines the modes being used in films such as "Communist Manifesto," and "Attack the Gas Station!," which arouses socio-political criticism and how they convey subversive meanings. It provides accounts which traces the social and historical condition of the country's film sector in a wider socio-political setting.