@article{ART003380924},
author={Park YoungJoo},
title={A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—},
journal={The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture},
issn={2466-1759},
year={2026},
number={58},
pages={77-111}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park YoungJoo
TI - A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—
JO - The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 58
PB - The Society of Korean Poetry and Culture
SP - 77
EP - 111
SN - 2466-1759
AB - This study examines the compositional features and thematic orientation of Kim U-rak’s (金宇洛, 1854–1933) Haedo Gyogeosa (〈ᄒᆡ도교거사〉) and seeks to elucidate its significance in Korean literary history. Haedo Gyogeosa is a long-form gasa that brings Kim U-rak’s upbringing, marriage, family life, and exile to Manchuria together within a single narrative.
The narrative of Haedo Gyogeosa undergoes a marked transition at the point of exile. The first half of the work focuses on individuals and interpersonal relationships, whereas the second half centers on spatial movement and events. By portraying her family memebers through distinct forms of address and descriptive epithets, Kim represents the family not simply as a group bound by blood but as a relational order in which ritual propriety and reverence, affection and care, and responsibility and succession are put into practice.
Kim provides a realistic account of the grief of leaving her homeland, the hardships of long-distance travel, cold and illness, separation from her family, and the harsh conditions of settlement. Yet she does not allow these hardships to culminate in a narrative of despair. She records the hospitality extended by those she encounters in unfamiliar places, finds consolation in the birth of the jongson, the grandson who would carry on the main family line, and in the future of her descendants, and explores the possibility of sustaining life. The structure in which painful realities intersect with an affirmative outlook reveals Kim’s understanding of exile as a process of reorganizing and carrying forward the lives of the family and the community.
The significance of Haedo Gyogeosa in Korean literary history lies in its reconstruction of the historical events of Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910 and the subsequent exile to Manchuria through Kim U-rak’s own life and perspective. The work integrates a woman’s life, the history of a family, a national crisis, and the continuity of a community within a single narrative, representing exile as a process of sustaining life while preserving a relational order.
KW - Kim U-rak;Haedo Gyogeosa;women’s gasa;family community;exile
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Park YoungJoo. (2026). A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—. The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture, 58, 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. 2026, "A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—", The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture, no.58, pp.77-111.
Park YoungJoo "A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—" The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture 58 pp.77-111 (2026) : 77.
Park YoungJoo. A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—. 2026; 58 : 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. "A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—" The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture no.58(2026) : 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—. The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture, 58, 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—. The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture. 2026; 58 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—. 2026; 58 : 77-111.
Park YoungJoo. "A Study on the Early 20th-Century Women’s Gasa—" The Studies in Korean Poetry and Culture no.58(2026) : 77-111.
