2016, Vol.73, No.3

Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.89

pISSN : 1598-3021 / eISSN : 2671-7921
https://journal.kci.go.kr/snu-ioh

The present study pays attention to the founding and management of the central company of the Baek Family up to the 1920s, which is the Daechang Trading Corporation, in order to analyze the process of transformation from traditional merchant to modern merchant and then to industrial capital. The reason that the Baek family succeeded in transitioning to modern merchant capital while avoiding a collapse at the level of traditional merchant was none other than the background of Han Sang-ryong and Hanseong Bank, with Ito Hirobumi as the broker. Daechang Trading, founded in 1916, was its result, and became the largest beneficiary of the wartime economic boom of the First World War. However, the postwar recession starting in 1920 was the beginning of Daechang Trading’s long-term financial difficulties. In just the year of 1920, it suffered tremendous losses of over 120 thousand yen, and by the end of the 1920s, it went bankrupt. Around 1930, the Baek family planned a revival of Daechang Trading, but they failed time and again. The intentions of Hanseong Bank, the main bank and long-term creditor of Daechang Trading, was a factor in this failure. Hanseong Bank was skeptical to the revival of Daechang Trading, and instead hoped that it devoted itself to the role of product store for subsidiary Daechang Textile Corporation. Founded in 1932 through the funding of Hanseong Bank, Daechangsa Inc. is a result that thoroughly reflects the intentions of Hanseong Bank. With the end of the Daechang Trading era, the Baek family transitioned into industrial capitalists with Daechang Textile and Taechang Textile Corporations as their central companies. This process was not a voluntary choice by the Baek family as Hanseong Bank, armed with funding, exerted powerful influence.

The purpose of this paper is to specifically examine the mode of wandering consistently represented in Suju Byeon, Young-ro’s early poems and to elucidate the significance and form of ideal community. Byeon, Young-ro’s early poems revealed the intentionality of the subject called ‘Nim’ by expressing repeatability of ‘dream’ and ‘wandering’, thereby showing that it was the origin of ‘life’ to him. Based on this, he came up with the idea of community where Joseons particularity and individual independence could be expanded into a global universality through the introduction of ‘individuality’. In the mid-1920s Byeon, Young-ro specified wandering into the method of travel and explored ideal community by borrowing sijo(traditional three-verse Korean poem) discussed as a classical form in the contemporary literary world. This point can be verified with the historical book written by Danjae Shin, Chae-ho and Widang Jeong, In-bo. Therefore, this paper considers the mode of wandering in his early poems as the device to investigate community, which can be an alternative of the reality of Joseon period, and to explore the origin of ‘life’ rather than as returning to the ideology of nationalism.

Korean modern literature in liberation period of the so-called phenomenon might be termed ‘return of the nation’ to escape from the colonial experience and memories were preoccupied in becoming a national literature as ideology of the nation=state. Kim, Song’s literatures clearly showed political situations that integrating into a single exist while interpellation subject of the nation-state building people who were differentiated by generation, class, region, gender in liberation period. Interpellation were taken how the renewed as the national subject, literature showed the narrative of growth that the underclass was to establish self identity in response building of nation-state at that time. In this sense, to consider the ideological form of Korean literature in liberation period could be one way to understand the developments of the Korean Literature as modern literature=national literature from empire-colonial system to postcolonial-the cold war system.