This paper examines the formative process of the modern Korean traditional fairy tale “Deer Lady.” The story of the Deer Lady can be found in Buddhist sources dating back to the third century. These stories are mostly based on the past lives of the Buddha and his parents and teach Buddhist doctrines, such as reincarnation and the merit of dana. The story of the Deer Lady also appears in local sources such as Yeojidoseo (輿地圖書) published during the Joseon Dynasty. This legend explains the origins of ruins or place names in Pyongyang and Anju. It is believed that the story of the Deer Lady in these local texts was not intended to teach Buddhist doctrine, but rather to be told as an interesting story in folklore.
In the modern era, the Japanese translation of “Daesungsan(大聖山)” by Miwa Tamaki reflects Japanese colonial interest in Joseon tales that contained Joseon customs and psychology. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Joseon tales promote a sense of Korean identity and history through the medium of our old stories. In particular, through the recruitment of ‘tales’ that led to Choi Namsun and Bang Jeonghwan, these tales are collected, and these old stories are used in school education and cultural cultivation for Korean children.
This process led to the formation of traditional fairy tale texts, a genre of modern literature. Park Youngman's “Twelve Thousand(열두삼천)” imagines children as the audience and adapts the story of the Deer Lady to a level that is suitable to children’s moral and educational development. Through Park Youngman's text, we can clearly identify one aspect of the formation process of traditional Korean fairy tales in modern times.
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]