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Kim Su-Young and Ham Seok-heon(2): Ham Seok-heon’s Idea of Ssial and Kim Su-young’s People Theory

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2022, 15(1), pp.107-139
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2022.15.1.107
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : February 28, 2022
  • Accepted : April 2, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

Choi, Ho-young 1

1안동대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to examine the characteristics and significance of Kim Suyoung’s people theory according to its relevance to Ham Seok-heon’s idea of Ssial. The idea of Ham Seok-heon provided the main reference point for poet Kim Su-young to make an ideological change before and after the April 19 Revolution. Ham Seok-heon tried to emphasize the independent capacity and potential growth possibility of each individual by placing the people in the Ssial as the source of life. His idea of Ssial was an attempt to present the people of the time as the true subject of revolution based on the properties of life itself, such as autonomy and expandability. Kim Su-young also discovered the self as a subject that could substantially change the current reality, and witnessed that contemporary people are being reborn as subjects who move history in the midst of hardship. In their writings, the people is represented in the form of grass that demonstrates the intrinsic activity of life. As such, their people theory has a special status in the discourse field of Korean in the 1960s.

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