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Some of the scholars who have studied the concept of place formulate the profound and complex side that a person have experienced as a place, they also say that the place is recognized differently for each individual depending on people's experience and the identity, namely the sense place, is granted to that place. In addition, they add that our body is an object which recognizes the space, in other words, the body belongs to the main organization which experiences the space. On the other hand, the body itself is a space, that is to say the personal space, so the human body itself is seen as part of the space that surrounds us. Through the analysis from Kim Seung-Ok's short stories : <Journey to Mujin>, <Night Travel> and <Moonlight of Seoul Act 0>, I examined with the concept of place how women were recognized in the novelettes. In the three literatures, each woman was expressed as a 'life refuge', 'infested place' and as the 'eternal resting place' which man lust for, and this is the recognition for women of the overall society of that period, which is beyond Kim Seung-Ok's personal thought. The novels that the general public reads do not largely deviate from the historical facts. The stories of the novels described this way become the new truth and reality and influence the consciousness of the public readers. Therefore, the novel describing women's recognition, depicted by the man who is the subject, with the woman as the other and not as the subject, must continuously be subject of the debate in the future.

place, sens place, women, subject, the other