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A Study on the Narrative Identity of <Geomseung-Jeon> Jung, In-Hyouk <Geomseung-Jeon> is a retrospection of a monk, Geomseung who had participated in the Japanese invasion of Chosun Korea in 1592. He was a swordsman of Japanese army. So, the experience of Geomseung is narrated in the body of the text. But the narrator comment and criticize another character, Korean swordsman who was a preserver and teacher of Geomseung. There is the same story of Geomseung at <Story of Maeng-gamsa>, ≪Haksanhaneon≫. But a representation method of <Geomseung-Jeon> is diferrent from <Story of Maeng-gamsa>. In the case of <Geomseung-Jeon>, Geomseung is focalized by a certain person who is unsubstantial. On the other hand, in <Story of Maeng-gamsa>, Geomseung is focalized by Maeng, Ju-seo who is a real person. Therefore, the narrator of <Story of Maeng-gamsa> records the story of Geomseung as Maeng, Ju-seo saw it. But, the narrator of <Geomseung-Jeon> reconstruct the story of Geomseung by making a unsubstatial focalizer, a fictional witness. The narrator of <Geomseung-Jeon> does not record a story of Geomseung but state oneself from relationship with the others, Geomseung and the swordsman. So <Geomseung-Jeon> is a kind of self-narratives.

<Geomseung-Jeon>, <Story of Maeng-gamsa>, focalization, focalizer, self-narratives