2025, Vol.68, No.

Buried Avant-Garde: Poetic Exploration and Current Issues in Lee Seon-gwan's Early Poetry

JI-YOUNG PARK | 2025, 68 | pp.5~28 | number of Cited : 0

The Affect of Lee Seon-gwan’s Early Poetry

JUNG-SUN PARK | 2025, 68 | pp.29~53 | number of Cited : 0

Global Village Consciousness and Disability Identity in Lee Seon-gwan’s Environmental Poetry

JU-HYEON KIM | 2025, 68 | pp.55~81 | number of Cited : 0

Lee Seon-gwan, known for his environmental poem “Doksudae” (1975), devoted his entire life to writing environmental poetry. Across five volumes of poetry, including his posthumous collection, he addressed a wide range of issues such as the Chernobyl disaster, victims of domestic and international industrial accidents, and the division of Korea. Based on the recurrent themes of ‘global consciousness’ and disability identity in his work, an analysis of his environmental poetry reveals that his ‘global consciousness’ corresponds to the concept of ‘ecology–deep ecology,’ distinct from the notions of Global or Glocal. This global consciousness is rooted and modulated in the ambivalence of ‘the global village–Masan’ where he lived (polluted modernity/community-based place), with its core principle being the “equivalence of life.” Meeting with his disability identity, this global consciousness enabled him to move beyond an early sociocultural complex over an ‘inferior body’ and to form a political and cultural identity. Here, his sense of solidarity with contemporary environmental thinkers plays an important role. The forcibly divided Korean Peninsula is one of the key sites where this global consciousness emerges. These poems draw on national and agrarian cultural motifs to express a political disability identity aimed at healing damage and recovering wholeness. In contrast, Chernobyl appears as a global village marked by barrenness produced by science and technology. Yet the poet overcomes the fear of extinction to bear witness to the suffering of ‘child’ victims of the disaster and to warn of the possibility of such a catastrophe erupting globally. In the Chernobyl cycle, this recursive structure returns once again to the children of the Korean Peninsula where he lives. Finally, his environmental poems embody his cultural disability identity as a disabled poet and primary caregiver. The practices of caregiving and writing environmental poetry together enact an ethic of care for nature, which the poet realized in his life and work.

Poet Seon Kwan Lee, Ecological Philosopher Jong Cheol Kim and their Unknown Poems and Essays in the Newspaper Masanilbo

DAE-HWA BAE | 2025, 68 | pp.83~114 | number of Cited : 0

A Foundational Study on the Educational Application of Jeongam Cho Kwang-Jo's Thought

MIN-JAE KIM | 2025, 68 | pp.115~141 | number of Cited : 0

The purpose of this study is to analyze the systematic structure of the self-cultivation theory embodied in the thought of Jeongam Cho Kwang-Jo, and to explore, in a general sense, the educational values that may be derived from his life and study. ① In pursuit of this objective, the study first examines the framework of self-cultivation theory that he articulated and implemented. The ultimate aim of his scholarly endeavors was the realization of the “unity between tiāndào(天道) and réndào(人道).” The fundamental obstacle to attaining this unity lies in the presence of “yù(欲)” inherent in human beings. Consequently, a disciplined process of learning directed toward the removal or regulation of yù becomes indispensable. This process is centered on the “xīn(心),” which governs human life, and is actualized through the cultivation of “jìng(敬)” and “chéng(誠).” The fruition of such practice is manifested in the acquisition of “déqì(德器)” and “xīngāng(心剛).” When actualized, this framework of self-cultivation theory extends beyond the realm of personal development to the social order, ultimately culminating in “zhìzhì(至治).” ② Subsequently, the study investigates two dimensions concerning the educational interpretation and application of Jeongam’s thought. First, with respect to the aims of education, it emphasizes the cultivation of “spiritual composure,” required of moral agents, and the attainment of “spiritual firmness,” arising from a sense of moral integrity, thereby providing learners with the opportunity to engage in profound reflection. Second, with respect to the methods of education, it suggests that expositions of Jeongam’s life and his theory of self-cultivation may be integrated into school curricula or employed as supplementary instructional resources.

A Reconsideration of Political Crisis and Professional conspirator- Focusing on Walter Benjamin's "Convolute V: Conspiracies, Compagnonnage"

JUNE-SOUNG HONG | 2025, 68 | pp.143~167 | number of Cited : 0

Nietzsche and Sartre on Nothingness: Suicide as an Ontological Conflict and Existential Freedom

HEE-JOONG JUNG | 2025, 68 | pp.169~193 | number of Cited : 0

This study aims to examine the thought of Nietzsche and Sartre on the relation between the human being and nothingness, focusing on the fact that both philosophers provide significant reflections on the problem of nothingness. In contemporary Korean society, the suicide rate remains alarmingly high, and people increasingly come to regard suicide as a rational solution. However, the attitude of viewing suicide as a solution can be mediated when it is accompanied by fundamental ontological reflection on issues such as “to live or to die,” or being and non-being. The conflict that drives one to contemplate suicide is related to the essential crisis of human existence, and may in fact be understood as a problem of life and death arising within the relation between being and nothingness. Nietzsche discusses nothingness at a psychological level, explaining the process by which humans create aesthetic illusions that sustain life in a meaningless world. He insists that humans must create their own world through life, warning that the pursuit of epistemic knowledge produces an ascetic ideal. By contrast, Sartre conceives nothingness as a lack within human existence itself, claiming that this nothingness is the very condition that makes human freedom and action possible. For Sartre, nothingness is not simply opposed to being; rather, it is the crucial element that enables humans to detach from the past, project themselves into the future, and transform the present. Although Nietzsche and Sartre approach the relation between being and nothingness differently, both explore existential conflicts and possible resolutions, thereby offering new philosophical perspectives on the view of suicide as a solution. Nietzsche argues that the will to nothingness must be transfigured into the will to power for the creation of a new world. Sartre regards nothingness as the condition of human freedom and describes death as the impossible state of endless change. Together, their perspectives provide a novel insight into the problem of existential conflict and offer an important point for rethinking the relation between life and nothingness.

Gyoyu (交遊) and Network: Confucian Learning Communities in Transitional Gangwoo and Knowledge Production in the AI Era

DU-HO JUNG | 2025, 68 | pp.195~214 | number of Cited : 0

The Acceptance Pattern and Meaning of Women in GoSijo

SEUNG-KU BYUN | 2025, 68 | pp.215~237 | number of Cited : 0

An Annotative Analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s Short Story Harbin

RONG FU | 2025, 68 | pp.239~267 | number of Cited : 0

This study offers an annotative analysis of Lee Hyo-seok’s short story Harbin, foregrounding the spaces and landscapes to address gaps in previous research. While earlier studies have mainly emphasized the author’s emotional interiority or critical consciousness as a colonial intellectual, few have explored the historical and cultural specificity of Harbin as a modern city within the literary text. This paper seeks to fill that imbalance by analyzing the specific forms and structures of the city and by investigating how these are represented and imbued with meaning in Lee Hyo-seok’s narrative. Methodologically, the study combines annotative reading of Harbin and related essays, with historical materials, photographs, and maps. Harbin’s spatial structure is analyzed hierarchically at the levels of district, street, and specific site. Within the text, locations such as districts, streets, buildings, consulates, and the yacht club serve not merely as backgrounds but as crucial mediators reflecting the author’s temporal consciousness and his emotional stance. Annotative interpretation enables the restoration of the texture and atmosphere of the observed landscapes , while also offering new possibilities beyond abstract or symbolic readings that have dominated earlier scholarship. Chapter 2 examines the formation and international character of Harbin as a modern city. Chapter 3 analyzes the transformation of its major streets and their hybrid nature as landscapes of modern experience. Chapter 4 focuses on the consulates and the yacht club, where imperial power and modern civilization in the narrative, juxtaposing literary descriptions with historical cartography and photographic evidence. Chapter 5 synthesizes these findings to clarify the multilayered significance and literary representation of Harbin. In conclusion, Harbin may be understood as a work in which a colonial Korean intellectual experiences the upheavals of global modernity and confronts existential reflection amid the unfamiliarities of a modern city. This study not only refines our understanding of Lee Hyo-seok’s literary modernity but also provides methodological implications for future research on the interaction between literary texts and urban space.

A Preliminary Study on the Converged Approach to Dementia Narratives and Dementia Policy

EUN-JUNG KIM | 2025, 68 | pp.269~289 | number of Cited : 0

Disaster Experience Spaces and Affective Solidarity in Yoon Go-eun’s Narratives

DO-MI JEONG | 2025, 68 | pp.291~310 | number of Cited : 0

A Study on Self-Reflective Writing in College Liberal Arts Education - Focusing on the Utilization of the Novel 『 Go as a River』

MI-JIN SONG | 2025, 68 | pp.311~334 | number of Cited : 0

The Carnivalization of Transidentity Narrative in the Comedy Film Johnny Keep Walking!

XUE-GE WANG | 2025, 68 | pp.335~353 | number of Cited : 0

An Exploratory Study on the Use of Welfare Technology and the Experiences of Social Workers

SOON-YOUNG MOON , YUN-JUNG KIM , YON-HWA LEE | 2025, 68 | pp.355~387 | number of Cited : 0

A Study on North Korean Youth‘s Acceptance of the Korean Wave

JIN-SONG LEE | 2025, 68 | pp.389~422 | number of Cited : 0

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