@article{ART003401372},
author={Kwon Minja},
title={Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)},
journal={Journal of Popular Narrative},
issn={1738-3188},
year={2026},
volume={32},
number={3},
pages={191-217},
doi={10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kwon Minja
TI - Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)
JO - Journal of Popular Narrative
PY - 2026
VL - 32
IS - 3
PB - The Association of Popular Narrative
SP - 191
EP - 217
SN - 1738-3188
AB - “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” (total 20 installments), serialized in the Chosun Ilbo in 1963, was a newspaper project designed to read and evaluate family issues through the narrative lens of fiction. By juxtaposing Korean literary works with practical sources such as legal consultations, Written Judgment, statistical data, news reports on cases, and the series presented marital conflicts not merely as personal experiences but as matters to be socially assessed and interpreted.
This paper analyzes how this serialization method invoked novels as normative references for interpreting and evaluating marital relationships, thereby concretizing the abstract rights and duties prescribed by family law into the ethics of everyday life. In particular, the series repositions novels—from Yeom Sang-seop to works spanning the colonial period to the early 1960s—as benchmarks for judging the realities of 1963, thereby actualizing the temporal order of literary history in a distinctive way.
Through this analysis, the study seeks to elucidate how early 1960s newspaper media, mediated through literary narratives, organized and reconstructed marital norms following the enforcement of family law.
KW - Family Law;Married Couples;Newspaper Serialization;Social Function of Literature;Reading
DO - 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
ER -
Kwon Minja. (2026). Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963). Journal of Popular Narrative, 32(3), 191-217.
Kwon Minja. 2026, "Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)", Journal of Popular Narrative, vol.32, no.3 pp.191-217. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja "Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)" Journal of Popular Narrative 32.3 pp.191-217 (2026) : 191.
Kwon Minja. Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963). 2026; 32(3), 191-217. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja. "Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)" Journal of Popular Narrative 32, no.3 (2026) : 191-217.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja. Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963). Journal of Popular Narrative, 32(3), 191-217. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja. Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963). Journal of Popular Narrative. 2026; 32(3) 191-217. doi: 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja. Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963). 2026; 32(3), 191-217. Available from: doi:10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
Kwon Minja. "Reading Family Reality through Novels- A Study on the Serialized Feature “The Reality of Korean Married Couples and Novels” in The Chosun Ilbo (1963)" Journal of Popular Narrative 32, no.3 (2026) : 191-217.doi: 10.18856/jpn.2026.32.3.005
