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Ahn soo‐gill is a representative writer of Modern Korean Literature in the area of description of the Korean history concerning with Manchuria. <North Kando>, the representative work of his own and one of Korean national literature, objectively and vividly described the aspect of Manchuria and Korean immigrants there. Through the novel, An soo‐gill presented the contribution of these Korean immigrants to the Korean Modern History and showed the great pictures of Korean independence movement in Manchuria under the Japanese conquer. In the novel, the writer showed an episode of four generations of three families, who lived and fight in Manchuria. Through the novel, we can not only read the different kinds of value orientation of people in the Colonial period, but also can know more in detail that after losing sovereignty, Korean people paid great price and continuance fight on recovering their national self‐respect and independence. This novel described with realism on the Korean Modern History concerned with Manchuria, especially in the history of Korean independence movement there. Through the novel, we can also see the process of development of Korean literature, and in the same time, we also can read the writer’s historic consciousness, the mental situation of Korean people in his time, and the contribution of this novel to the Modern Korean Literature.

Ahn soo‐gill, North‐Kando, independence activities, displaced nostalgia, historical consciousness, puppet Manchuria government