@article{ART003315145},
author={Bok Gyung Yeon},
title={Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2026},
volume={83},
number={1},
pages={443-473}
TY - JOUR
AU - Bok Gyung Yeon
TI - Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2026
VL - 83
IS - 1
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 443
EP - 473
SN - 1598-3021
AB - In the 1950s, when they were able to think about the world through firsthand experience, Korean intellectuals visited the 3rd UN General Assembly and published their own records, and the only female writer’s record was Mo Yun-sook’s The World I Saw. In The World I Saw, the traditional gender role is followed by borrowing a strategy of “disguised apoliticality”. However, on the one hand, private utterances that deviate from the role and reveal their desires are sometimes caught. In existing studies, discussions have been mainly conducted in terms of space or ethnicity of works, but this paper tries to pay attention to Mo Yun-sook’s gender strategy and the point of selfcontradiction that deviated from it.
Mo Yun-sook assumes her position as a “byeokchon girl”, which is a tool to wrap up her identity, while the pure image of the Byeokchon girl served as a reference point for judging women. Mo Yun-sook’s gender strategy was attempted in a way that advocated national consciousness and purity. On the other hand, behind this public writing, there were mixed private utterances outside the gender role that were required of women (civilians) of the time. In a heterosexual patriarchal society, women’s sexuality has been punished and managed, but in The World I Saw, women’s sexuality, which was taboo at the time, was affirmed with unavoidable self-desire, while rather objectifying male intellectuals, causing a gender reversal.
The World I Saw is a complex place of writing that intersects the role of public writing called the UN General Meeting and Mo Yoon-sook’s private diary. It means that while the method of gender strategy emphasizing tradition and ethnicity encompasses the entire work, it is possible to discover private utterances about the sexuality or desires of women who have been suppressed.
KW - The World I Saw;World Travel;Mo Yun-suk;Gender Strategy; United Nations General Assembly;Private Writing
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Bok Gyung Yeon. (2026). Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 83(1), 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. 2026, "Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.83, no.1 pp.443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon "Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83.1 pp.443-473 (2026) : 443.
Bok Gyung Yeon. Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw. 2026; 83(1), 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. "Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83, no.1 (2026) : 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 83(1), 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2026; 83(1) 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw. 2026; 83(1), 443-473.
Bok Gyung Yeon. "Mo Yun-suk’s Gender Strategy and Private Writing Crossings: Based on the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, The World I Saw" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 83, no.1 (2026) : 443-473.
