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The aim of this study is to propose to include words created by the widespread clipping phenomenon in new Korean words to Korean word formation education system. In the first place, it examines the concept of clipping phenomenon in the previous studies, and defined the concept of proper clipping phenomenon in the Korean language education in the formative conditions as the words that are formed by the reduction of syllables and all word. In the next place, the cut forms were classified by clipping language through clipping of a word group recognized as a word as the basic unit, and mixed language whose basic unit is word group, phrase and formed by clipping and synthesis. So far, the word formation education system in the Korean language was made by focusing on synthesis and derivatives. However, considering the realistic language life and word ssuggested in TOPIK, it is necessary to discuss to set language formation education system by the clipping phenomenon. Accordingly, this study adapted Thornbury(1999)’s teachinglearning model and designed a proper teaching-learning model for word formation education system by the clipping phenomenon using the focused approaching method. While this study has a significance implication of designing word education plan for Korean language learners by means of word formation education system, it also has clear limits. Firstly, the theoretical basis to set the clipping phenomenon as the Korean language formation method equivalent to synthesis and derivatives is insufficient. Secondly, it does not suggest a specific teaching and learning method on the word formation by clipping phenomenon. Thirdly, vocabulary and grammar sections are excluded in the test from the 35th TOPIK (2014.7.20.) in order to reduce learning burden of test takers. This study does not provide any alternatives how to make word formation education in the test in which indirect test for vocabulary and grammar are performed through reading, listening and writing.

This paper aims to clarify the semantic-formal characteristics of the paradigmatic blends and to distinguish the blends from the abbreviation in present-day Korean. In the semantic-formal aspects blends is different from the clipped word and initialism. Blends have no the original form, blend’s meaning is not the same as the compositional meaning of source words. But the clipped word and initialism have the original forms and the former has the same meaning as the latter. Despite these differences between blends and clipped word/initialism, the comparative object of Korean blends must be not clipped word/initialism but abbreviation. Because there are the many different types of abbreviations that don’t belong to clipped word/initialism in present-day Korean. Accordingly clipped word/initialism is only the subtype of abbreviation. This paper argues that the concept of syntagmatic blends which is suggested in 노명희(2010) has not the logical basis in present-day Korean Grammar. A so-called syntagmatic blends have the original form and the same meaning as the original form as if abbreviation does. In English blends is formed of the compounding of the larger units than letter but abbreviation is made of the combination of letter units. Because these two of English is different in the formal aspects, the concept of syntagmatic blend can be established in English grammar. But in Korean all of blends and abbreviation are made of compounding of syllables or larger units than syllables. In Korean these two are not distinct in formal aspect. Accordingly concept like a so-called syntagmatic blends which is suggested in 노명희(2010) must be discard. And this paper insist that the real status of so-called syntagmatic blend is a subtype of abbreviation in present-day Korean.

It is generally held by scholars at both home and abroad that most words are acquired by metaphors which are important signs and ways for semantic changes. Thus, in acquisition of Korean words, learners are encouraged to have a basic understanding of conceptual metaphors and then have an overall command of all words with the cognitive approaches of conceptual metaphors. Moreover, they are supposed to make full use of their mature mind to understand the words. In this way, not only will learners be developed in their way of thinking in Korean language, but also they will become more efficient in words acquisition.

Literary men in late Goryeo Dynasty appreciated the importance of the culture with regional characteristics influenced by the culture of Won dynasty that had been formed out of the combination of every unique cultures from all over the world. By virtue of this recognition, they attempted to represent regional characteristics of Goryeo in their poetry and prose. This tendency was conspicuous in the literary men as Mokeun Isak and Ikjae Lee jaehyen who experienced the culture of Won through having stayed there for a long time. They emphasized the fact that the culture of the East country(Dongkuk) and the culture of the Middle kingdom(Chunghwa) are not different but the same, the idea of which was represented in their poetry. Mokeun's works were noteworthy for this tendency. He left his hometown for studying at his age of 14, and he went to Won dynasty when he was 20. Even after he came back to his homeland, Goryeo, he had to stay in Kaesung for his government post. Therefore, it is not difficult to find Mokeun's poetry whose themes are related to describing the sentiment of missing his hometown. It is very significant to note that in his works, he did not view Goryeo as a country, but he did as one region in the world of Won. According to his perspective, he attempted to represent Goryeo as the locality within the order of the world of Won. Consequently, he tried to express his sentiment in his works using a variety of topics, such as the histroy, people, folklore, language, foods, plant species in Goryeo.

The purpose of this article is to provide three layers or the direction of creation of Korean culture educational contents considering <Heungbojeon>, a Pansori work. As a result, the following three layers are provided. 1) To make material culture, behavioral culture elements or folklore emotion itself educational contents by reading characteristic emotion in the life of figures in the work under the environment of folklores, 2) to realize characteristics of Korean language using conversations in the work as text and to reconstitute educational contents by abstracting language culture, and 3) to constitute mind and reality perception of Koreans critically from the perspective of literature through appreciation and understanding of works. Such three layers have original characteristics but they can be integrated and performed together. Relating with universal characteristics of ‘Literature’, foreigners may be affected in the dimension of internal growth reading Korean literary works and may feel something based on universal life of human beings. Such appreciation and understanding should be considered more closely in the future in the extension of the third layer of Korean cultural education.

Modern Korean poet Seo Jeongju had published his first collection of poems Hwasajip( The Book of Striped Snake) in 1941. His poem ‘Jahwasang’( Selfportrait) appeared at the very beginning of this book. It means that the poem was very important for the poet. In this paper I have discussed several topics on ‘Jahwasang’. They can be summarized as follows; (1) ‘Jahwasang’ consists of two stanzas in contrast. (2) The central idea of the poem is ‘inversion of existing value’(Nietzsche) and declaration of the birth of a new poet. (3) This poem shows the consciousness of ‘poète maudit’ (cursed poet), which Verlaine called Symbolist poet. (4) There is a considerable distance between poet Seo Jeongju's biography and this poem: the poet's father was not a ‘slave’, but a secretary and manager of tenant farms. And contrary to someone's interpretation, his maternal grandfather was drowned in the sea around the year Gaboh( the Year of the Horse). (5) In this poem traditionoriented world and modernityoriented one coexist. The poetic world of Hwasajip is also almost the same. Therefore ‘Jahwasang’ can be representative of Hwasajip, and moreover Seo Jeongju's poems all.

This paper aims to extract common topic and aesthetic sense among the essays of Lee Tea-jun and Tanizaki Junichiro and to chase the relationship of the aesthetic sense contained in the essays. Tanizaki Junichiro is a writer whom Lee Tea-jun had loved to read. The essays of the two writers are common in the aspect that they deal with the Orient in the point of view of aesthetic warmth and they come from the real life of the two writers. This study tries to find the reason, from which the writer, who wrote essays under the effect of orientalism, was deeply influenced by another writer, not in the orientalism but in the emotional mechanism in which nationality or the Orient is changed to something subjective. According to Kant, aesthetic sense does not come from sensible comfortableness or an air of difference but from the activeness in which attention is actively thrown away. The two writer's attitude, with which they describe tradition and classics as calm and longing in their essays under the situations of the time, mean that they refreshingly found the difference among Chosun, Japan, the Orient and the West under the intentional overlooking about the situations of colonial Chosun and empire Japan. In other words, it means that the two wirters could talk about the art itself in their essays by ignoring the situations of the time on purpose. Therefore the way, in which they tried to grow away from politics and capital, was the motive with which the two artists could comfort themselves and write again.