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Baik-Suk’s Critique of Modernity in the Period of Manchuria

Kimjaeyong 1

1원광대학교

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Baik-Suk, one of the most important poet under the Japanese Empire moved to Manchukuo at 1939 to escape from the censorship and oppression of Japanese Empire which emphasizes the ‘One Body of Korea and Japan’. He criticized the policy of assimilation from Japanese colonial authority. At that time Manchukuo propaganda of ethnic harmony confirmed that Korean people is not Japanese but citizen of Manchukuo state. So many writers including poet Baik-Suk believed that the atmosphere of Manchukuo is better than Korean peninsula which is ruled directly by Japanese colonial authority. But after visiting Manchukuo, he comes to know that she is same with Korean peninsula even though the propaganda of Manchukuo. He recognized that Manchukuo is another variant of Japnese Empire. After knowing the oppression of Manchukuo, he resigned the official position of economic department of Manchukuo State and moved to countryside near the capital of Manchukuo. He also thought that the place of Manchuria is the space of authenticity against the global capitalism and imperialism. The Solon ethnic group who lived in the Manchuria is the most pure mankind. He wanted to know and see them who have keep the original state of living. He also translated the Russian novelist who lived Manchuria and wrote about the primitive and pure life of humankind. But after knowing the predicament of that ethnic group between global industrialization and primitive life, he tried to get another vision.

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