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This article has examined <Panmunjeom> and <Panmunjeom2> in terms of revision and adaptation. <Panmunjeom> was published in 1961, and 50 years after that, the author presented the same title <Panmunjeom2>. The same title was attached to the original work, and the same characters were re-introduced, just aged for 50 years, and the desire that the North and the South should be unified through exchanges remained the same. In addition, the author himself appeared directly in his work, explaining that the two works are on the same line. He soon recalls the time when he created <Panmunjeom> and made a metapictive narrative method by mentioning the unfamiliar story there. <Panmunjeom2> is the sequel to Panmunjom, and the narrator in the novel and the author himself are the same person, and the main events in the work are his actual experiences. In the last years, Lee Ho-chul gradually tilted the boundaries between actual reality and fiction, and showed anti-fictional tendency to proceed with narrative. <Panmunjeom2> is that way. Through these works, Lee Ho Chul not only depicted the suffering and nostalgia of North Korean people, but also presented the universal value of life in the divisional era. It is the aesthetic of desire, a desire but never a hurry. The author himself is never in a hurry or anxious, despite the fact that he is gradually disappearing with the passage of time. In <Panmunjeom2>, the 'heart of earnest' is more important than anything. When the lives of North Koreans are improved economically and the South and the North are recovering their 'living', they will be able to unify in the true sense. The author looked for the basis of such belief not in a fiction but actual reality, and expressed it through his own experience. In this regard, <Panmunjeom2> is not an essay but a novel. The essay is so individual and confessional that it is the same as the author himself. When he reaches <Panmunjeom2>, the author becomes a state that life and work are integrated, in which the world is a novel. For Lee Ho-chul, adaptation is not simply rewriting, but another creation or rewriting. For example, rewriting or another creative work reflecting the reality of the situation and the times is an adaptation of Lee Ho Chul. The recent rapid change in inter-Korean relations is more novel than one novel. As I watched the inter-Korean relations developed like the lightning stones, I think that maybe the author's 'heart of earnest' made such a change.

Lee, Hocheol, reform, re-write, Panmonjeom Panmonjeom2, meta-fiction, Unification, One livelihood Unification