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This paper is written for an overall prospect toward Song Young's 'Literature'. There has been estimation that Song Yong achieved great accomplishment in playwriting but not in novel writing. This estimation has been a ball and chain to examine his whole 'liturarure'. From this critical mind, this paper analyse Song Young's well-known 1930's plays <Hwanggumsan>, <Yunsiilga>, <shinimisajang> by comparing his several short stories and novels written in similar period. This work desires to demonstrate that Song Young achieved the expected literatual results in both plays and novels. In 1930's novels, Song Young often tells the narratives about a husband exiled by periodical situation and his perseverant wife in many forms. <Hwanggumsan> arouses these narratives in dramatic way on the stage. In <Yunsiilga> Song young brings up the problem of poverty. This problem generates a networks of meaning about social structure by combination with scattered informations in many different novels, like <Boksuni>. Eventually, it can be said that Song Young strewed touchy social issues over his texts, and they seems to do with a huge social structure, namely the empire and colony. Particularly in <shinimisajang>, he not only showed a master satire on the capitalist class also wanted to tell the whole story about popular movements which resisted against Japanese imperialism. As a result, we can say that Song Young is not a playwright bound by class consciousness but a writer who is try to keep tension to the society in same period by gazing at the colony Chosun.

absent husbands, <Hwanggumsan>, <shinimisajang>, sold daughters, Song Young's Literature, the colony Chosun, <Yunsiilga>