This study examines the Korean translation of Kikuchi Sankei’s Kibun-den, serialized in Hanseong Shinbo in four installments from August 29 to September 4, 1896. At a time when modern translated literature in Korea was still in its formative stage, Hanseong Shinbo was expanding Korean-language reading materials in response to readers’ interests. Although the specific reason for selecting Kibun-den and the identity of its translator remain unknown, the work’s varied episodes—including adventure, commercial success, extravagant spending, and decline—provided strong narrative interest. A comparison with Kikuchi’s Kibun-den in Honcho Gusho Shinshi (1883) confirms that the Hanseong Shinbo version is a complete direct translation that preserves the overall structure and sequence of the source text. At the sentence level, however, various translation methods coexist, including Sino-Korean readings of Japanese names and places, semantic translation, omission, and supplementation, as well as misreadings of vocabulary and syntax. The fourth installment is particularly distinctive in its treatment of names and expressions and in its segmentation of classical Chinese sentences. While these differences do not establish a change of translator, they raise questions about whether all four installments were produced under homogeneous translational and editorial conditions. The 1896 Kibun-den is therefore significant as an early complete direct translation of Japanese literature into Korean and as an important source for examining translation practices in early modern Korean newspapers.
한국일본언어문화학회 [Japanese Language & Culture Association of Korea]
설립연도
2001
분야
인문학>일본어와문학
소개
본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본문학은 물론, 일본의 정치, 경제, 문화, 사회 등의 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구 및 일본의 언어, 문화를 매체로 한 한국과의 비교 연구를 대상으로 하고 있다. 본 학회는 회원들에게 연구 발표 및 정보 교환의 기회를 부여하고 나아가 한국에서의 바람직한 일본 연구 자세를 확립하는 것을 주된 목표로 하고 있다.