2015, Vol.21, No.2

The Translated Acceptance of Japanese Literature and Publication of Literary Anthologies in the 1960s － Focusing on the Anthology of Postwar Japanese Literature

Jongho Lee | 2015, 21(2) | pp.7~38 | number of Cited : 9

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The Receptiveness and Characteristics of Japanese Novel “Daemang (Tokugawa Ieyasu)”

Lee Han Jung | 2015, 21(2) | pp.39~83 | number of Cited : 2

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This novel examines the Korean receptiveness and characteristics of “Daemang,” the Korean translated version of “Tokugawa Ieyasu” by Yamaoka Sohachi. “Daemang,” which was translated by Jae-hee Park and published in a series of 20 books in 1970, was then published in a series of 32 books in total by including the works by other authors. Currently, this novel is being distributed in the market in a series of 36 books that were published in 2005. For this translated version, up to vol.12 is “Tokugawa Ieyasu” by Yamaoka Sohachi, and the rest is the works by Yoshikawa Eiji and Shiba Ryotaro. In 2000, the entire 32 books of “Tokugawa Ieyasu,” which was translated by Gil-jin Lee and used the same title of the original book, were published after making the official license contract with Japan. In addition, there are numerous other translated versions of “Daemang” or “Tokugawa Ieyasu” that have a different number of books, and the digest version and the translated version “compiled into one book” were also published. Yet, “Tokugawa Ieyasu” by Yamaoka Sohachi first passes as “Daemang” in Korea. The novel was titled “Daemang” to express the wish of the original author who wrote it while pursuing ‘survival’ and ‘peace.’ However, “Daemang” was accepted as symbolizing Tokugawa Ieyasu’s ‘Great Ambition.’ This book was treated as Tokugawa Ieyasu by the mass media due to the hostility toward Japanese culture, but captivated public readers as a book for experience and knowledge in life and textbook for the art of living. It was read widely across all generations, especially by company CEOs and politicians. This stemmed from readers’ desire to learn the “Daemang” of company and state management, which manage humans, through “Tokugawa Ieyasu” by Yamaoka Sohachi.

The Relationality between South Korean Erotic Films and Japanese Adult Films - the Production Conventions of Theatrically Released Adult Films of the 1970s and 1980s in the Two Nations, Considering the Case of Madame Aema

Yun-Jong Lee | 2015, 21(2) | pp.81~117 | number of Cited : 9

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Sex tour industry and ‘Gisaeng’ in Korea in 1970, 80’s

Kwon Changgyu | 2015, 21(2) | pp.119~147 | number of Cited : 10

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Korean Popculture & Romance in the Korean Popular Novel of the 1950s from the Viewpoint of Date Place

KANG, OKHEE | 2015, 21(2) | pp.151~185 | number of Cited : 1

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This study is about taking a look into the aspect of the popular culture at the time and change of the dating culture or style by the dating course in the popular novels from 1950's. The object works to the analysis are , <Madam Freedom> written by Beesuk Jung, <Life Picture>, <The Star in the Lost Paradise> written by Raesung Kim, <Star in My Heart> written by Gyejoo Park, The popular novles from the 50's shows the change of the aspect of the crowd's life and their resentments really well than any other pieces of literatures. Furthermore, the dating place and the course consists the main place as the narratives of the romance story and also makes the story various and interesting. It is believed that it is available to figure out the aspect of life, rituals and even the pattern of the consumption of the people that time by following the route of their dating course in the story. So, it is able to see the dating culture and the life of the period realistically by the popular novels. The date courses in the popular novels from the 50's are various including a palace, countryside, a cafe, a Chinese restaurant, a theatre, a dance hall, an amusement park, a beach, a spa, a golf course, a department store, a grill, a water spring and etc. The dating place of the characters' shows the life of the people at that time and further, it reflects the trend and the rituals of the people at the time and it's very interesting to find out that the characters' intension and the aspect of the act differs by which place they go for the date. That is to say, where the characters live and be placed can appear as various meaning such as just be a place for consumption, place for the reflection of their pure love or sometimes for revealing their sexual desire. This study refers the dating course from the pieces above not only tells the audience about the characters' route of the movement, but also a place for reconstituting the cultural taste and the new cultural experience of the people in the 50's. Also, it is able to read the crowd's reflected desire by the semantic network of the meanings of the places. By accepting and experiencing the modern and new foreign experiences due to the dance hall or Hollywood movies which are embodied as the place for the new culture and sometimes as the place for the sexual desires, led people to experience about the theatre, grill, golf course or etc. Just the substitute experiences of keeping the tune of the foreign thoughts and the culture itself entertained the crowd.

College Girls in the Movie <Winter Woman> and Emotion Structure of Korean Society in 1970s

Kang Yu-jung | 2015, 21(2) | pp.187~217 | number of Cited : 11

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Female Labourers as stereotyped images in Labour novels in the 70’s

Kim, Kyung Min | 2015, 21(2) | pp.217~248 | number of Cited : 7

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In the field of literary history of Korea, the 70’s is evaluated as an era of popular literature and labor literature. However, in these novels written in the 70’s that would talk about issues related to labor, female labourers are hardly observed. To be specific, the female labourers are observed or reproduced only through these eyes of male characters or male narrators but they seldom speak in their own voices. Presence of the female labourers who could not speak for themselves in the novels of those times is recreated basically in two ways and as for the first type of presence, the female labourers are described merely as ‘women’ but never as ‘labourers’. Most of these appearances of the female labourers explained by the male characters get distorted as some decadent and promiscuous images or by reason that they are not capable of conducting independent, proactive thinking, the female labourers are described as these vulnerable, ignorant individuals but nothing else who should be happy to be controlled or protected by a head of a family, either a father or an older brother. In addition, in terms of another type of the female labourers in the novels in the 70’s, there are these female labourers who would be described only as asexual ‘labourers’, and readers cannot find anything feminine about those women. In case of such female labourers, they were expected to accept sacrifices and pains with willingness as they were modified by these appetizing terms, ‘industrial worker’ and ‘pillar of industry’, and in the meantime, desires, emotions and others that they could have inside as women were easily ignored and ruled out. Add to that, unlike the male labourers, as for these problems such as sexual harassment and sexual violence that only female labourers could hardly avoid, they were never officially discussed as being left out behind these other generalized labor issues. As described so far, the female labourers in labour novels in the 70’s were still surrounding characters, and it can be regarded as another type of violence committed by the intellectual/men on purpose (out of awareness).

A Study on the popular magazine “YADAM (historical tale)” in 1950s-1960s

Byounggill Kim | 2015, 21(2) | pp.249~288 | number of Cited : 3

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Sound Politics of Radio TBS eFM － The Concepts of Globalization and Multiculturalism in Korea

김수진 | 2015, 21(2) | pp.287~315 | number of Cited : 6

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The Study on the Change of World-consciousness and its Novelistic Reproduction Aspects appeared in <Jekuk Sinmun (The Journal of Empire)>

HyunJu Kim | 2015, 21(2) | pp.315~349 | number of Cited : 6

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This study aimed at defining <Jekuk Sinmun>’s identity as modern mass media, considering its romantic reappearance aspect and its meaning according to change in World-consciousness, focusing on 9 new-style novels that were included in <Jekuk Sinmun>. The era of the great han empire was the period that tried to find main agents of civilization and the method in social imagination which tried to build a modern Nation State. Due to the protectorate Treaty between Korea and Japan concluded in 1905 and the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1907, <Jekuk Sinmun> developed a new method to enlighten the public in a novel while keeping to the characteristic of strenuous efforts that was based on the improvement of a custom and ability fostering theory, which Our goal could no longer promote to build a modern Nation State. Therefore, <Jekuk Sinmun> recalled ‘the ethos of Korean(죠션혼)’ through leading article, at the same moment; it asked modern individual(私人) for coming into the world.As such editorial reasonable argument was reproduced in a novel, it enlarged sympathy to the public. While a novel improved Korean theatrical practice, especially, and could give an impetus to institutionalization of daily life, it tried to produce the mechanism of pro-Americal and expanded for restoring the great main agent. As the result, while a novel in <Jekuk Sinmun> wrote modern sense, ethics, value and orientation process to institutionalization of daily life in everyday world, it played a role as creating modern main subject, constructing imaginative common sense and recalled the great main agent. The novel’s project of enlightenment, however, was convergent institutionalization of daily life in value neutral, and could not give an impetus to political reform that was able to cope with flexibly weak-to-the-wall kind of international dynamics.

The Tragedy of Banality － A study on the appropriated melodrama in Yeom Sang-sub’s popular novel

배준 | 2015, 21(2) | pp.349~387 | number of Cited : 1

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Narrative and Music of Musical “Oh! While You Were Sleeping” － Focusing on Reversal Technique of Concealment and Bias

Sa-Bin Shin , 이우창 | 2015, 21(2) | pp.387~416 | number of Cited : 0

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1960s Visual Text on Overpassing a Frontier ‘The Old Man Gobau’

YEONYUNHUI | 2015, 21(2) | pp.417~450 | number of Cited : 2

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The Korean society cartoonist Kim, Sunghwan (hereafter Kim) took the journey to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and to East Asian countries from July 1st to 27th of 1962. Kim took a trip to these countries as a foreign correspondent of <DongAIlbo>. He published 29 sets of travelogue titled as “Gobau Traveling to East Asia” from July 9th to August 12th. Starting from 1955, Kim published “The Old Man Gobau” through <DongAIlbo>, criticizing first President of South Korea Rhee, Seungman’s administration. Through “The Old Man Gobau” he criticized how Rhee’s administration showed <corruption, wrongful elections, and how citizens are having a hard time because of the Rhee’s administration. Kim, who had deep connections with the readers for a long time later published a travelogue. He took an advantage of his comic skills and senses to match the eye-level of the general public and used exotic mood as a visual text. From Kim’s point of view, and what he had published through <DongAIlbo> showed characteristics of visual text that readers should focus on. First of all, Kim had a meaningful connection with the readers through “The Old Man Gobau” and attracted many readers. From “The Old Man Gobau”, Kim stood by the Korean citizens’ point of view and tried to resolve the issues of Korean society through his exotic humor. While Kim was traveling, he wrote down some of the episodes that he had experienced and turned that experience from a readers point of view. Second, Kim’s four-cut cartoons “The Old Man Gobau” and artwork of visual text showed characteristics of exotic moods and sensibility to the readers. Moreover, while Kim published, “Gobau Traveling to East Asia” he post ‘Traveling overseas” and put out a message “away” to the “The Old Man Gobau’s” readers. While Kim was traveling overseas he published a travelogue from the beginning of his journey until he came back. Kim published odd stories to the readers and this brought reader’s undivided attention along with humor. In the 1960s, there was a variety of travelogues were published, but some readers were not able to connect travelogue with reality. Intellectuals who publish their travelogue would often try to teach readers. On the other hand, Kim’s travelogue, rather than teaching readers or to give a lesson he used a technique of trying to meet their eye-level of criteria. Kim also focused his view of putting out a foreign place from the citizen’s perspective. Moreover, compare to prior travelogues and Kim’s travelogues the difference was that prior travelogues would often use language text to visualize the foreign countries, Kim’s travelogues inserted visual-text so that many readers can imagine beyond what is out in the foreign countries. The “The Old Man Gobau” had its own attentiveness with humor and satire through visual text which gave many Korean readers a second thought of “overseas travel.” It is noteworthy that Kim tried every aspect to reposition the images of East Asian countries.

A Sense of Anti-Communism and The politics of ‘Buron(不穩)’ － A Study on How to Read the Anti-Communism Film under the Park’s Regime

Yu Seungjin | 2015, 21(2) | pp.451~487 | number of Cited : 8

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2015, Vol.21, No.2