In the movie ‘modern times’, Charlie Chaplin runs around between the cogwheels. It represents the annihilation of humans in the mechanized world where everything is mass produced and mass consumed. When seeing in such perspective, modern is situated on the same line with mass production and the history of high-speed development. What's important here is that who were the protagonists in such period. Although there were many people such as politicians, educators, stars, etc who could have led the era but what is clear is that those who worked in the hidden side were the real protagonists, the Modern Boy. Self illuminating being, Modern Boy The modern man who must live with an uncertain future must seek answers from their own. With their own will, when lights in their head can light up the future, my life has a value. The force that moves our society lies in Modern Boy who illuminates by itself, a real protagonist of our time.