Analysis of Narrative for Mobile e-book Applications with Haeinsa Buddhist Tales

Abstract

This study describes the humanistic perspective inherent in Korean Buddhism. It is based on a narrativeof the establishment of Haeinsa Temple, which is one of the three major Korean traditional temples,and represents the heritage of Korean Buddhism. With this narrative, we developed and implementedmobile content for Android devices titled “Treasures from the Palace of the Dragon King.” Its scenario,which is a folktale of the establishment of the Haeinsa Temple, was created using A.J. Greimas’ Actantialmodel as the research method. As a result, the content developed by the reconstruction of the scenarioconsists of mini-games and animations offering an intuitive user experience (UX), which is implementedin a compound E-BOOK for mobile devices. We aim to promote Korea’s traditional culture throughoutthe world, using this content as a starting point for the future.