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The Re-Discussion of Memory Transformation on Park Yup

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2022, (45), pp.225-256
  • DOI : 10.52723/JKL.45.225
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : March 31, 2022
  • Accepted : May 10, 2022
  • Published : May 31, 2022

Eunju Yi 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article attempted to shed light on why Park Yup's story took on a unique aspect in the later unofficial historical tales, following the previous study that Park, a close aide to Gwanghaegun who was executed shortly after King Injo's coup, is transforming from a corrupt official to a positive figure. To this end, Park's anecdotes in the late 18th and 19th centuries were classified into seven types, some of which pointed out that they seem to bring partial motifs from the stories of Yoo Mong-in, Park's contemporaries and other official history. However, the fact that Park's image is changing in anecdotes in the late 18th and 19th centuries itself cannot explain why this change occurred. In this article, based on the fact that Park served as a governor of Pyongan-do for a long time, he identified anecdotes that seemed to be the prototype of later stories through records in the Pyongyang gazetteer and Pyongyang people Kim Jeom's Seokyeong Sihwa and Chilong Naengseol. The prophecy of killing the "Cheonin" that appears in later anecdotes is the name of the people responsible for Park's death, and Park misunderstood it as a prophecy to kill a thousand people, and Chilong Naengseol showed that Park was innocent because he misunderstood the prophecy. Park's tyranny in the Pyongan-do is the object of resentment to the local people who suffered from his tyranny, but paradoxically, it can be thought that the perception of Pyongan-do residents changed after Park's execution. It is also noteworthy that the local people unofficially built Park's shrine in the 18th century. According to Shim No-sung's Daeseongsan Shinmyogi(the record of mountain spirit shrine), Park's shrine is related to the fact that the resentful local people dismembered Park's body immediately after his execution and could not recover the body, and after a period of time, showed the guilt and compassion for Park's spirit. However, this cannot be seen as denying Park's tyranny. Park's shrine was a shrine to pray for good fortune, not the official governor's shrine. when Park became a mountain god, he gained the image of a guardian deity of Pyongan-do, and later gained the image of an warrior figure with mysterious abilities in a fictional narrative. The direct reason why Park turned into an unrealistic and mysterious figure in later anecdotes can be seen as the result of the local people of Pyongan-do remembering Park's brutal execution and his body being damaged, and looking at him anew with guilt and compassion.

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