Ko Un’s Ten Thousand Lives is a collection of poems comprised of 26 volumes in total, which was first published in 1986. In fact, Ten Thousand Lives is unprecedented in the history of Korean poetic literature with the largest volumes among the anthology of poems written under a single theme. Ten Thousand Lives was written in the process of remembering the characters that a writer met when he was detained in Special Cell #7 at an army prison charged with ‘Conspiracy of Rebellion and Violation of the Martial Law’during the military coup in 1980. What matters is the interest in Ten Thousand Lives itself. At the same time, it is important to bring a new point of view, exceeding the limitation of the previous studies. Characters in various social classes appear in Ten Thousand Lives including neighbors encountered in private space and time, those who have existed in the history and in reality and transcendent and religious beings. In fact, the characters in Ten Thousand Lives are specific and living beings, forming a single community and public ontology. Therefore, as a collection of sequential poems, which has stated the process of being the subject, Ten Thousand Lives can be understood as modern subjects that vividly describe their modern life styles. A question of whether or not Korean modernization has been successful is another question on how much Korean society has preserved the value of civil society. Therefore, the implementation of the value of civil society is still an incomplete project and needs to be carried out through continued interest and criticism. The virtue of Ko Un’s Ten Thousand Lives lies in an attempt to describe the various problems, conflicts, pain and frustrations that occurred during Korean modernization through each character. Ten Thousand Lives sees that an individual is not an isolated being but a subject that seeks for its identity in the process of continuous interrelationship with others. Therefore, Ten Thousand Lives is significant in that it has illustrated the forming process of a Korean civil society. A civil society is the place where an individual wants others to become a leading entity. In other words, it is the space in which mutual recognition and recognition struggle take place. Individual freedom means the freedom free from any disturbance from others. However, this freedom can exist with the existence of others. It is a process of the self? evolution of Korean civil society to witness a variety of social conflicts such as Korean War, the April Nineteenth Uprising and May 16 Military Coup being restored through an individual life. Considering the unique characteristics of a Korean society in which public value and ethics were emphasized and its destructive and sad history, the individual who has the true value of civil society was the character that has been continuously pursued in Korean literature. Therefore, it appears that Ko Un’s Ten Thousand Lives is a narrative picture on the common lifestyle before and after the Korean War and piece of work which is significant in the history of Korean literature with the‘ Discovery of Individual.’
한국문예창작학회(The Society of Korean Literary Creative Writing)는 한국
문학의 새 지평을 열기 위해 문예창작 이론과 문예교육 이론을 연구 계발하여 문
예창작의 새로운 방향을 제시하고자 조직한 학술단체입니다.
전국 대학과 대학원 문예창작 관련학과의 전·현직 전임교수·겸임(초빙)교수· 강
사·대학원 재학 이상자 및 문예창작인들이 회원으로 활동하고 있습니다. 학회의
목적에 적극적으로 동의하는 문학 관련 단체나 문학창작 동호인도 준회원으로 참
여하고 있습니다.
연 2회 학회지를 발간해 학문적 기반을 닦고 있으며, 정기적으로 학술 세미나
와 해외 문학 심포지엄 등 학술 발표회를 개최하여 학문적 교류와 토론의 장을
넓히고 있습니다.
한편으로, 문예창작 캠프·문학기행 등의 창작교육 활동과 창작 학습 행사를 수
시로 진행하면서, 창작·창작이론·창작교육에 관한 활동의 범위를 넓히고 있습니다.
별도로, 문예창작 교육을 받은 문예창작학도들의 진로 개발을 위해 '문예교육지도
교사 자격 시험'도 운영하고 있습니다.
The Society of Korean Literary Creative Writing is a pure academic
association for the literary cretive writing, and was organized on November
11, 2001 for the purpose of presenting the new direction of literary creative
writing by studying all the methods to activate and develop the theories of
literary creative writing and its education.
Our society is composed of professors or ex-professors, some invited
professor, lecturers, graduate students of the dept. of literary creative writing
as regular members, and the persons interested in our program as associative
members.
Our society holds an annual academic meeting-- literary symposium,
literary creative writing seminar-- and publishes the journal of our society
and our members' anthology of literary works.
Added to these, our society has already started a new project to open the
way for our literary juniors by providing them with a certificate as a leader
and holding a forum for literary creative writing.
간행물
간행물명
한국문예창작 [The Journal of Korean Literary Creative Writng]