Arang(아랑 : the departed soul had been killed by sexual violence and returned to the real world)-Festival in Miryang is based on the oral-narrative and the written-narrative of Arang, has the ritual of Arang and various performances of Arang.
The story of Arang follows the narrative structure of “The Missing of Arang, the daughter of the provincial governor of Miryang -The Repetitional Deaths of the new provincial governors of Miryang by the emergence of Arang, the departed soul - The Meeting of the mediator, new provincial governor of Miryang and Arang, the departed soul - The Story of the sexual violence Arang had experienced, said by Arang, the departed soul - The Clarification, Judgment and Mourning in the public and symbolic field”.
The points of the story of Arang are the return of Arang, the departed soul, the event of the sexual violence experienced and said by Arang, the departed soul, and the process of clarification and judgment, of mourning in the public and symbolic field conducted by Arang, the departed soul. The aim of the return of Arang, the departed soul is mourning, in the public and symbolic field, her losses by the sexual violence.
Arang invited to Arang-Festival represents the ideology of the faithful woman\'s chastity and virtue, and in fact Arang-Ritual is the memorial and educational field to instruct virgins to lay woman\'s virtue and chastity that patriarchal system demands of female subjects, to their heart.
If it is possible to interpret with the story of Arang that Arang, the departed soul and the mediator are melancholic subjects and their behavior is the process for mourning losses by the symbolic criterion and regulation, Arang-Festival is to be the ritual and festival for mourning the psychologic losses of melancholic subjects ruled out to the outside of social borderline.