 A steady stream of works beginning with “Portrait of My Elder Sister” (누님의 초상, 1978) deal with Korea’s division from the viewpoint of characters who idealize the past in order to compensate for the depraved reality of the post-war present.Moreover, they display traditional outlook on life, characterized by belief in fate and inability to adapt to changing ethos and structures of society.In more recent works, however, Yoo Jaeyong has sought to explore the thread that connects the past to the present rather than contenting himself with retrospection.