Class reproduction and Korean male dancers receiving exemption from military service through dance competitions

The purpose of this study is to understand the habitus or field of Korean male dancers exempted from military service through dance competitions from Pierre Bourdieu's point of view and accept, to pass the Korea dance culture for their own just culture to find the mechanism of represent their class and culture privilege. To as to achieve the purposes of the research, we selected four male dancers from "S university" and "K university" who had been exempted from military service as a result of participation in dance competitions as participants in this study, using purposeful sampling. For this, we employed participatory, in-depth interviews, research participants' cover letters and experiential statements, the researcher's reflective notes, the research participants' dance concours-related video, etc. The results are as follows. In terms of the mechanisms of class reproduction in dance, the legitimacy of the fields accepted by the research participants was acting as an apparatus that reinforces cultural privileges and reproduces class. And this continues into the next generation. Competitions have developed beyond a simple cultural art into an art that evaluates, measures, and recognizes dancers' talents and skills, but Korea's dance competition culture reproduces unequal social structures.