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In this article, I examined how the transcription about memory was made based on Hyun Ki-young's <Aunt Suni>. The memory method used in the first chapter was the gesture aunt Suni who was a victim. Aunt Sun who was directly concerned in the incident was exposed like a sitting duck to the violence of memory that constantly came to her in its present form. Eventually, she had to remember, repeat and experience the incident ceaselessly in the form of nervous breakdown, mysophobia, auditory hallucinations that were the sign of her suffering carved in her body. That was the violence she had to undergo against her will. In other words, aunt Suni was the symbol of victims in 4.3 incident of Jeju-do who have still suffered from the memory about the incident in its present form. In the second chapter, I analyzed the transcription about how attacker's memory was made based on aunt Suni's husband. The attackers tried to evade and keep distance from the incident at first, however, when things were not going very smoothly they plotted a politics of oblivion using potent force. Accordingly, they justified their actions blaming the victims for the incident and attempted to rewrite history demanding they have to forget it and move on. In the last chapter, I analyzed the meaning messenger's memory can have. The messenger who belongs to the next generation of the incident is commissioned to played a major role to expose the delivered memory and demand the truth be told. According to these commitments, "I' who was the messenger in the novel exposed horrors 4.3 incident and narrated this personal memory should be shared to remember the truth. "I" also hoped the consolation to the victims and their reinstatement would be realized and expressed the will to overcome old wounds through sharing of memory. Analyzing the memory of three character layers like this, I can say that <Aunt Suni> is the work showing the sufferings of past violence did not end in the past constantly coming in its present form. That is, this work makes clear that 4.3 incident is not a closed case but a existing one.

Aunt Suni, memory, narrative, 4.3 incident, subordinate subject, consolation