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The Subject and the Others on Modernizing Period's Korean Poetry Cho, Hae-Sug A Gasa(歌辭) affiliated with <BokSeonHwaEumGa(福善禍淫歌)> is one of the transformational Gyenyeo Gasa(戒女歌辭). It is estimated that women produced many variations to create and enjoy broadly after the latter half of 19th century. The type of this work group is classified into two; 'Gyenyeo' type which emphasizes a normative admonition, and 'Jeongi(傳記)' type which is developed with the speaker's biography as the central figure. And I inquire the change of narrative viewpoint, way to connect inner stories, and telling. The variation from 'Gyenyeo' type to 'Jeongi'' type has new meaning in respects of enjoyer's concept and Gasa's distribution. A Gasa affiliated with <BokSeonHwaEumGa> assumes a modern phase, on the point that it makes 'GoeDdongEoMi(괴똥어미)' who is a minority character appear in Gasa text, and that women who are the objects of 'becoming the other' becomes the subject with including or tolerating another person for themselves. Also, it is important that the work figures the positive role of women who step forward as the core of production and home-management and reveals a desire for 'riches' and a solidarity through 'poverty'. A Gasa affiliated with <BokSeonHwaEumGa> discloses how Gasa can become popularized, by increasing a description or a narrative and letting us hear of various character's polyphonic voice in one text, too.

Gasa(歌辭), <BokSeonHwaEumGa(福善禍淫歌)>, Gyenyeo Gasa(戒女歌辭), modernity, popularity