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Review and Mothod of Study about the Oral Life History of Korean-Chinese(Chosun-jok) Diaspora

Bak Gyung Yong 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

The oral life history of Korean-Chinese(Chosun-jok) diaspora is an useful method for recording and understanding of the process of migration and adaptation, the oral history of Korean-Chinese’s everyday lives. And it is history, culture contents and the text for analysis. Focused on Korean articles and books, there have been very poor only 16 books of life histories and 5 articles on this part until now. But it is much significant and worthwhile that these studies lead to more research about the oral life history of Korean-Chinese diaspora in the future. I would propose 'the more inclusive oral life history’ as an alternative plan for up-grade oral life history of Korean-Chinese diaspora. For this, we must inclusively contain the concerning oral tradition, oral testimony, life narrative and the oral history of everyday lives in the oral life history of Korean-Chinese. And then we must make up-grade the oral life history of Korean-Chinese diaspora in the field of oral history. It is necessary for us to adopt different strategies according to two unlike diaspora types so as to study the oral life history of Korean-Chinese diaspora. The case of the first diaspora about Korean-Chinese in original regions should be all focused on oral tradition, oral testimony, life narrative and oral culture history of everyday lives. But another case of the second diaspora about Korean-Chinese in re-migration regions should be more focused on the process of adaptation and the history of everyday lives in new migration regions than oral tradition and oral testimony. We can conserve the history of Korean-Chinese and make up for Korean history through recording of the oral life history about Korean-Chinese diaspora. We can make good use of it to education and culture tourism storytelling and for development of culture industry, broadcasting and movie, drama, literature, museum etc.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.