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Humanities studies of Chunwon’s discourse of migration shown in The house of Sambong

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2016, (9), pp.167-190
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature

Song Hyun Ho 1

1아주대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This study is to analyze the discourse on migration in The house of Sambong written by Chunwon with his experience in Manchuria, from a perspective that seeks literary study as a focus of the study on literature, not about politics or camps. Sambong was an assiduous young man with relatively comfortable life however he had to leave his home town after an evil plot by Dongcheok and dissolution of the national capital. And he was imprisoned by the police after a false accusation by Mr. No, an official who wanted to take Ulsun as his concubine. Mr. No, with Japanese authorities, drove Sambong to the corner. With help from a young lawyer, Jang Jaecheol, he was relieved as an innocent man but he spent too much money for his trial and became penniless. So he moved to Seogando away from oppression and unjust treatment by authorities and landowners and to live peaceful and happy life. Sambong settled in Seogando and tried to have a life but he was deceived by Kim Munjae and lost his money, exploited and even lost his rice paddy. For survival, he had to become a pig herder for Horoya. Horoya's mistress and Kim Munjae made false accusation and the translator Mr. Park extorted from his own people. The police was linked with Chosun's tricksters and wouldn't let Sambong go but transferred him. Sambong tried to live honest living, follow the laws and keep his life peacefully however the world deceived him. So he recognized 'it is beyond the control of a one individual' and 'it is an issue to be solved on the national level' to create a society of peace and equality and embarked on a fight for the nation. Chunwon wrote vividly about people of Chosun who lost their living foundation and moved to unfamiliar places to live like slaves, who were neither free from oppression and exploitation of Japan nor treated equally once the national capital was dissolved. Chunwon would have actively advocated Japan's policy if he had been an informer for Japan. But he wrote about miserable living of migrants from Chosun, and portrayed, against Japanese policies, negatively about Japanese authorities and landowners, and emphasized he would participate in the fight for people of Chosun.

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