2015, Vol., No.57

The Catastrophic Imagination of American Post-Apocalyptic Novel and Korean Disaster Novel

Dauk-Suhn Hong | 2015, (57) | pp.5~39 | number of Cited : 24

A Disaster Resulted from Anti-Semitism Dotted with Prejudices: With Emphasis on the Memoirs by Rolf Kralovitz, a Survior of the Nazis Concentration Camp

SHIN JONG RAK | 2015, (57) | pp.41~65 | number of Cited : 0

During the period of Nazi Germany, Rolf Kralovitz was deported with his family to a ghetto in Leipzig by the secret police. He then was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp (Konzentrationslager Buchenwald), one of the major German Nazi concentration camps, in Weimar. With the defeat Nazi Germany in World War II, he barely escaped death and later published his memoirs in order tell the youth of today the reality of his own experience in the concentration camp.Many of the Jews like Kralovitz were forced to be sent to the concentration camp without knowing the reason and ended their lives there. The massacre of the Jews, however, was by no means the accidental brutality of the Nazis. It only manifested the climax of the prejudices against the Jews among the Europeans, which had been accumulated in their ethos since the Jewish diaspora-or the exile of the Jews. The holocaust was a drastic manifestation of antagonism against "the others." The people of Europe had long harbored prejudices against the Jews. Therefore, it was not easy for the Jews who believe in Judaism and maintain their own way of life to enter into the existing order of Europe. Since the Middle Ages, the Jews had been defined as misers who were engaged in trade and loan-sharking. The prejudices that the Jew would govern the world with their accumulated wealth had been incessantly reproduced and were later been established as a firm ideology - not easily persuaded by any other ideas or ideologies - after the Europeans experienced racism and the 19th century imperialism in the modern period. As part of their schemes to make the best use of the European antagonism against the Jews, the Nazis instigated racism and began to oppress the Jews. The Jews, however, neither raised objections to nor resisted the move; it was closely related to their own history. As a result, the Europeans' economic and racial prejudice made the Jews in "the others" and laid a foundation for the oppression of the Jewish people. The holocaust in the period of the Nazis shows that the systems and the technological development of the contemporary society - when accompanied by a disregard for other people and interspersed with prejudices and misunderstanding - can destroy human beings more easily.

End-of-the-Planet-Earth Science Fiction Films in Hollywood: Dystopian Spatio-Temporality in Blade Runner and Interstellar

Yun-Jong Lee | 2015, (57) | pp.67~99 | number of Cited : 7

A Study of Jagyeongnok(自警錄) by Uidang(毅堂) Bak Se-hwa(朴世和)

Kim, Jong-soo | 2015, (57) | pp.101~135 | number of Cited : 5

A Study on the No-confidence Motion against President Syngman Rhee in the Korean Provisional Government in 1920

Lee Hyerin | 2015, (57) | pp.137~173 | number of Cited : 2

This study examines the no-confidence motion against President Syngman Rhee from the beginning of 1920 to August the same year, which aimed to oust him from the Korean Provisional Government. The no-confidence against Syngman Rhee resulted from the criticism of the President’s approach to Korean independence movement. Rhee took a negative view on the resistance movement, insisting that independence should be achieved through diplomacy and the sympathy from other countries. Criticizing Rhee’s strategy, the Sindaehan Allied Association and the Korean Socialist Party members intended to oust Rhee from the Korean Provisional Government. In February 1920, Yun Hyeonjin, the vice-minister of finance and a member of the Sindaehan Allied Association, contended that Rhee has to be ousted from the Korean Provisional Government and that Yi Donghwi and Ahn Changho should become the President and the prime minister respectively. Yi Donghwi, the prime minister who was leading the Korean Socialist Party, also intended to oust Rhee by establishing an alliance with Ahn Changho. However, Ahn Changho opposed this proposal, claiming that the provisional government should not weaken its solidarity. In May 1920, the Sindaehan Allied Association and the Korean Socialist Party posted a no-confidence motion against the President at the Cabinet meeting, attempting to publicize the issue. The scheme was withdrawn, however, due to Ahn Changho’s strong opposition and the Cheolhyeoldan’s (Union of Iron Blood) physical attack on the provisional government. At the time, Syngman Rhee came into conflict with the provisional government over the issue of dispatching a diplomat to Moscow, which caused Prime Minister Yi Donghwi to resign and leave for Weihai. Subsequently, the alliance between the Sindaehan Allied Association and the Korean Socialist Party broke up when Kim Rip, whom Yi had been corresponding after moving to Weihai, was found to have kept writing secret letters on political issues. After Yi’s return, the motion of no-confidence against Syngman Rhee, which had been in progress from the early 1920, was discouraged.

A Study on the Korean Group of KUTV, 1924～25

Kim KuKhwa | 2015, (57) | pp.175~207 | number of Cited : 3

Development of Storytelling for Contents of Tourism and Culture to Make Use of Local Folk Resources: Reinterpretation of the Storytelling of "Dreams" in Gugok Waterfalls

Lee Hak Ju | 2015, (57) | pp.209~237 | number of Cited : 15

The Meaning of the Respect for Learners in the Analects of Confucius

MooGil Kim | 2015, (57) | pp.239~274 | number of Cited : 2

The Post-war Literature of Japan and the Korean War: With Focus of The Solitude of the City Square by Hotta Yoshie

KIM HYUN HEE | 2015, (57) | pp.275~306 | number of Cited : 4

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This paper is aimed at tracing the history of the post-war literature of Japan in the modern and contemporary period of East Asia and examining the Korean War and the situations during and after the war with much focus on The Solitude of the City Square (1951) by Hotta Yoshie. As the background of the novel, it presents the history of Japan’s invasion of Asia, which was the modern history of not only Japan but also Asian countries including Korea and China. This novel sharply portrays both the international affairs surrounding Japan during the Korean Korea and the situation of the people who were agonizing in society at that time. The word "commit" appears frequently in this novel in relation to two other major concepts: a "city square" symbolizing the state, society, and international relations and "solitude" denoting individuals, families, and human relations. From the perspective of the two concepts, we can understand that there exists a parallel composition between the main character who works at a newspaper office as a temp and the ongoing Korean War as the background. On a closer look, we can understand: 1) the issue of an individual ("I") through the action of the main character working at a newspaper office; 2)the problem of family (wife and children) and state (society); and 3) the stranger and the "post-war"society linked to the aforementioned elements. Therefore, the issue of the Korean War clearly shows the complexity of the post-war society in Japan including Japan’s awareness of Asia and its relations with the United States, which is one of the major themes of Hotta Yoshie’s world of literature. In this respect, this novel poses a deep meaning for not only the Japanese but also the Koreans living in the present times in that it depicted the self-contradiction of the U.S. Forces-occupied Japanese society as well as the criticism of Japan which is taking the reverse course of post-war rearmament. We can understand the value of this novel in that the situation of Japan during and after the Korean War some 70 years ago is depicted in parallel with Japan of today.

Conditions for Politics in Plato's Statesman

Kim Tae Kyung | 2015, (57) | pp.307~336 | number of Cited : 1

Husserl's Phenomenology and the Convergence of Sciences

Seung Ug Park | 2015, (57) | pp.337~360 | number of Cited : 4

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Biology of Love: Why Do Men Have Sex?

Eul-Sang Lee | 2015, (57) | pp.361~397 | number of Cited : 1

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