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This paper analyzes the father-son love shown in Kwon Du-mun's <Hogu Ilrok> and Kwon Ju's <Pyeongchang Ilgi>, which are accounts of domestic prisoner-of-war experiences during the Imjin War, and compares them with Jeong Gyeong-deuk's <Hosan Mansarok> and Jeong Hui-deuk's <Wolbong Haesangnok>, which are accounts of overseas prisoner-of-war experiences, to derive their meaning. In the practical accounts of brothers Jeong Gyeong-deuk and Jeong Hee-deuk, even when they had the same experience, the descriptions of the subjects of the experience were unbalanced, and one-wayness was detected in understanding mutual perceptions, whereas in the practical accounts of father and son Gwon Du-mun and Kwon Ju, there was an aspect of strengthened mutual intimacy, and an aspect of filling in the gaps through each person's description. Accordingly, unlike most prisoner experience essays that focus on the defense of the ‘individual’ as an individual text, the essays of Kwon Du-mun and Kwon Ju move in the direction of advocating for both the individual and the family. In other words, the love between father and son as shown in <Hogu Ilrok> and <Pyeongchang Diary> was not simply a psychological driving force that helped overcome hardships and fostered the will to return, but was also utilized and implemented as a dramatic example that exerted actual power and made family reunions possible.

<Hogu Ilrok>, <Pyeongchang Diary>, father and son love, defense, mutual intimacy.