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An attempt to figure out the space of literature is understood as an investigation on how it makes literature special and significant as background. The space in literature is more than just material but a symbol itself. A better understanding of literary space further specifies the meaning of work and offers reality. Literary space represents a geographical object that is primarily described in literature. The specified space is very efficient in aesthetically reorganizing falsehood by improving field actuality and reality in understanding literature. Therefore, it is essential to understand space to analyze literature. An understanding of Korean modern literature and urban problems starts in analyzing the literary atmosphere formed during the Japanese colonial period. In fact, urbanization is the fundamental base to realize modern values. Modernization will not manifest without urbanization. The growth─oriented economic development has caused urban migration, making Seoul a more bustling and crowded city. The rapid urbanization also caused several problems such as the collapse of rural communities and over development of nearby regions. After all, an interest in modern Korean literature required an understanding and awareness of the rapid urbanization and the contradiction of contemporary life. In modern Korean literature,‘urban space’is not a pure concept. It contains specific history since the problems of urbanization are closely related with Korean capitalism. Here, capitalism internalizes urban life as a symbol. Korean capitalism has developed around Seoul’s capital - intensive background. Therefore, the significance could not be reproduced without the symbolism of Seoul. Since the Korean War, Korean literature was developed on urban sensibilities or imagination. Therefore, it had no choice but to keep a close relationship with capitalism. The problem is the‘moral legitimacy’of Korean capitalism. The corrupt businesses that developed and expanded under capitalism and the military government stimulated literary imagination that originated from urban space. In other words, urban imagination could not separate from Korean capitalism since the 1960s. This paper has investigated the relationship of literature to urban space and its symbolic significance. The focus was on literature from where the problems of urban space were understood and observed. Urban life was examined in connection with the problems of Korean capitalism. Literature where the problems of urban space stood out was analyzed starting from 1960 to the 1990s when industrialization and urbanization were sharply promoted.

The literature has an important role in independent existence of an ethnic group and development of human being. So, the first thing to be considered in reviewing the achievement and meaning of literature in Japan colonization period is the corresponding aspect toward reality of colony. In the desperate situation where the life of ethnic group itself were threatened, the national literature in the period of occupation by Japan searched the life in poverty, irony of colonization society and the fundamental reason of the irony because it is what one should be and has a meaning as methodological practice of national right recovery. Yong-Ak Lee is the representative poet singing the language of experimental authenticity in the field of national literature. Especially he recognized the sorrow of emigrants in person and formed in density by linking this thoughts with national irony about colonization ruling system. Also, it is notable that the his poetic emotion is based on the sentiment of northeastern area. Different from feeling in Pyungan province appeared in Sowol Kim or Suk Baek, his poetry has an important meaning in expanding the spectrum of lyric poet in which he expressed the language and emotion in the borderland of the north in Korean Peninsula. On the other hands, his poetry based on ethnic emotions inclined to modernity on esthetic subjectivity in 1940s. This is because of the influence of autistic insecurity mental state in the life of prospect-less under the Japanese colonization. His poetry after the liberalization focused on the real life of violence. His poetry was reflected as another national tragedy by return of emigrants, conflicts between the rights and the left, and adherence of national division. However, the language of authenticity based on national reality of life could not be searched in the literature history of Korea because of his crossing over the border into North Korea during Korean War. His poetry after crossing the border could not have but adjust standardized and conventional literature creation of North Korea. We can call this is the tragedy of national division and also the tragedy of national literature history.

In Chae-Hun Cho’s poems, images of‘day-moon’,‘azaleas’or ‘dandelions’sometimes involve ambiguous and opaque meanings which could not be easily related to before-and-after context of each poem. But we should take focus on the fact that the images meant his family figuration centering around mother. His family configuration which these images include, shows some meanings of lack and damage stemmed from various sufferings such as hunger, starvation and so forth. In his poems, for example, those images continue to be deeply related to the consciousness of lost-mother or lost-family. These images show the consciousness of lost-family, which seems to be originated from his strong attachment for family. The dream in his childhood wanting him to live and grow under the protection of affluent family, is embodied through images of‘day-moon’‘, azaleas’ or‘dandelions’. Nuclear family is a result of the modern age. Before the modern times, only the upper class covering confucian intellectuals could live upon the base of large family (or extended family) system. In the medieval age, lower classes such as villains or serfs did not have any rights to compose their own family. It, therefore, was possible only after the modern age that all members of the society composed their family. Of course, it would develop under the base of socio-economic foundation that helped them to gain economic independence necessary for the formation of family. But liberty and freedom as the foundation of family construction, even in the modern age, was never permanent. Patriarchical authorities as prime mover of family composition, rapidly be weakened with the development of women’s economic power and their self-consciousness. Nowadays family communities really show strong bonds between members no longer. The meanings of family figuration inherited in images of day-moon, azaleas and dandelion, seem to have been a result of the process of modernization in Korea. So, in the present times affected by postmodernism, it is natural that young poets of Korea are not interested in those issues such as family figuration and family-bonded consciousness. Because they, consciously or unconsciously, regard these issues as old or timeretarded.

How Korea modern poetry have absorbed a cartoon imagination. And we are unfolded to any direction from now on the joining of the cartoon of the potry. We try to watch a change possibility of the poetry through this. We meet the cartoon to be continued with the character as the painting of the painting with the story. The potry of the Park chul shows the structure with the scene to correspond to an one room of the cartoon. The text and painting are joined together so that it is suitable. The feeling of the poetic speaker to calm to anger does infancy days scribbling and is delivered therefore. but the piece cartoon which Park Sang Soon’s potry has the story. Simple painting like the scribbling restrains the feeling of poetic speaker. We make and interesting atmosphere are suitable. His potry adjusts a suspicion ton and gives the sense of real. We can be seen as the surface so that we are childish. But the poet overcomes this apply the painting of rather childish more method. The other hand, the potry of Gun hyeok ung does not have painting. This poetry lent the story of the cartoon and people and reconfigure reality. The character of reality collides with a super power character. But there is the work of a dimension different from this. Ham Gi Suck does not pursue the meaning. He refuses existing to write the poem. He arranges the language here and there it when he sees as free signifiant. To be connected for his work with the cartoon through a signifiant play is interesting. The other side, The potry of Lee Jun Gyu laughes at serious meaning pursuit. He pursues the anti-association, meaninglessness and context destruction. He destroies a common sense about the potry also. Poetic speaker of Ham Gi Suck and Lee Jun Gyu like the child. The potic speaker of the Lee Jun Gyu is the boy if the potic speaker of Ham Gi Suck is the child. The while our Korea modern poetry absorbed the art, movie, music, and picture. We made the width of the poetry to this task. Which does thing happen if young poets combine the grammar of the cartoon in Ham Gi Suck and Lee Jun Gyu? Now our morden poetry must pass over now simple level of a citation of the masses media or parody. We must investigate how the mode of the phase lag of poets can be altered about masses media.

Poetry of the young poets in 2000s shows a more favorable tendency on rhetoric of allegory implying the era impossible to embody totality and Utopian world, not on rhetoric of satire associated with Korean political situation from 1960s to 1980s. This thesis was intended to explain an allegorical aspect of Young Poets in 2000s and its rhetoric meaning by researching poetry of Kim Jung-il, Kim Sung-kyu, Hwang Sung-hee, Song Ki-young who started from 2000s and actively used allegorical rhetoric. An allegory of the young poets started from 2000s shows common features as follows. First, a short narrative is built in a single poem. A short narrative placed in a poem has a single storyas a kind of fable style. Second, constituents in a narrative have different meaning behind. An allegory appeared by narrative constituents indicates meaning indirectly to modern society and reality. Third, allegorical meaning from the constituents in religion, myths or tales intends collects as symbolic sense while intending totality and universality. On the contrary, an allegory of the young poets in 2000s shows that meaning of the constituents scatters as fragmentary form and does not intend totality or symbolic sense. The reason why allegoric meaning of the constituents is fragmentary is that modern society loses universality and totality, and it has particularity and fragmentary specialty. Fourth, while an allegory of the young poets in 2000s recalls pain, tragic nature of modern society and‘this place-reality’, it does not present a prospect for Utopian world beyond reality. Fifth, an allegory of the young poets in 2000s shows gloom and despair of narrative maximizing tragic nature in life which death is inevitable in modern society as major emotions, rather than criticism against modern society. Like this, allegorical rhetoric frequently used by the young poets in 2000s presents only narrative of closed worlds locked in modern society and inside of real world. Because capital violence and the ruling order of modern society govern most parts of life as invisible form, not by visible form, Utopian world in order to overcome hostile reality and show is absent. Different from rhetoric of satire actively used when political situation to be overcame is premised, rhetoric of allegory indicates life agony in the unavoidable modern society.

This study was written to examine the worth of Lee, Ho-cheol’s literature under the division of the Korean peninsula. The subject of this study was limited to the novels based on the division of our nation. The tragedy of division drive our national spirit and culture into the state of separation. Today, the regional division of the Korean peninsula broke our nation in half in various aspects—in our feelings, our ideas, our senses of value, etc. Regardless of region (North of South) and ideology (Socialism of Democratism), we must retrieve our national homogeneity. Because it is the best way to accomplish the reunification of North and South Korea and to embody a real humanism. Lee, Ho-cheol has been writing novels on the subject of national homogeneity. His novels show a distinguishing structure of ‘antagonism and reconciliation.’In the introduction of story, the characters of his novel are always in opposition with a consciousness of hostility. But they show an ultimate reconciliation in the end though the enhancement of mutual understanding. And this structure has a feature expanding with the passage of time. In Lee, Ho-cheol’ s early works, the structure of ‘antagonism and reconciliation’showed itself in the brotherhood or the connection with friends. For instance, in “A nude figure”(1956),‘Chil-sung’disregarded his elder brother but the brothers shared love and reconciliation with each other in the end through the Korean War. As a result of this study, I could grasp the intention to achieve our national reconciliation and the effort to enhance our human love and understanding in Lee, Ho-cheol’s novels. This steady effort in his literature is a worthy message to the younger generation which did not go through the trauma of the Korean War, and simultaneously an opportunity of reflection to the older generation which has a delusion of persecution and a‘Red-complex.’ At the same time, Lee, Ho-cheol’s literature has the defect that it occasionally depends on sentimental feelings and overlapping theme.

Korean noovels of nowadays focus on destruction and disslution to life and its values. Novels with family subject matters are involved in such aspects. Family members hate and throw away each other, father is ridiculed. Members having no bloodtie are now replacing existed family in novels nowadays so far as. This thesis studies causes of these aspects and wants to reach a way of overcoming crisis nowadays. I study korean novels in history of accomplishing phallus that means modernity. Fathers in beginning modern age have awakening on modernity, but very shallow. Fathers under colonial rule of Japanese is proved in novels of Lee Gwang Su, Yum Sang Sup, and Chae Man Sik. Fathers in 1950s are those losing their life goal because of trauma duing to korean war. Fathers in 1960s~1980s are those accomplishing modernity and cold-hearted subject. The reason Koran novels nowadays indulging in destruction and dissolution due to see truth of the real after getting moernity or Phallus. Therefore Korean novels nowadays have to get new idea and vision under post modern age. I see new example in such a novel The House of Mommy written by Jun Gyung Rin providing new developemental stage through the case of divorced woman realize significance of Family and devoting to herself Family.

This paper will search how a poet, Seo Jung Joo, reflects his hometown, ‘Jil Ma Jae’in Seonwoonri Gochanggun Jeonlabukdo, in his works as poetic place. Through it, the paper will present a creation plan of storytelling using literary place of『 A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』. 『A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』is a collection of poems that rumors, gossip, folk tales, queer events of a village and stories of an odd person are main materials. ‘A Myth’is a narrative with holiness and an existing place‘ Jil Ma Jae’, Seo’s hometown, becomes a place with holiness. Although ‘Jil Ma Jae’is where Seo’s live experience is based, it is constructed in a view of mystery. When it is used for storytelling, ‘Jil Ma Jae’as a literary place should be decided a certain meaning.‘ Jil Ma Jae’as a literary place should be interpreted not as historical and geographical place but as a recreative place intended by a poet. The paper classifies poems in『 A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』into 3 parts. First, a local place, second, a place of a tale where a myth of village is mixed, third, a place of incantation in mysterious view. Poems in『 A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』reconstruct the existing place‘ Jil Ma Jae’and real characters who live near the pass of the hill. Jil Ma Jae is the name of the pass of the hill, Gil Ma( ‘Jil Ma’), from Sungdangri to Gumsanri Gochanggun Junrado. People named Gil Ma because of its shape of a saddle. The spatial meaning Jil Ma Jae is delivering the custom of local life. Seo Jung Joo builds his own creative world of poems changing the narratives in his style. In『 A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』he takes a tale into the existing place ‘Jil Ma Jae’and makes readers approach to the original hometown in human being’s unconscious. Therefore Jil Ma Jae as a hometown of an individual becomes an original place and general of the narrative. Experiences of the spirit and queer stories in 『A Myth of Jil Ma Jae』reconstruct the magical imagination realistically by mixing the human and the spirit, the death and the life, the human and the environment. Jil Ma Jae becomes the place where the living people and the dead people meet together. This paper reveals how to produce storytelling within the range of not being changed in meaning of literary place. It doesn’t present the method of storytelling fully but shows shortly. Afterward researchers can present more detailed methods of storytelling. Besides this paper, following research would be expand the range of literature through the technical aspect, storytelling and contents.

Latin America has been recognized as an alien country for Korean writers. Although between two countries have done international exchange such as politic, economy and art, but in Korea narration art including fiction, performance, film seldom finds the space of Latin America. This study aims at categorizing and analyzing Korean narration works relating with Latin America, and observing the mean of the space of the country. Through this research, the space of Korea narration art can enlarge its border, and revitalize cultural relationship between two countries. The space of Latin America appeared in Korea narration art will be divided into four categories below. First, unreached exit - an imaginative space : Korean could not go abroad independently before 1988. Therefore, Latin America was regarded as an escaped space from a gloomy political situation well as an unreached place. For instance, in Kim Won-on-il’s fiction“ Festival of Darkness”,‘Club Amazone’would be a representative example. After 1988 the liberalization of visiting foreign country, it still could not be easy to go to Latin America owing to the distance. So the country maintains the mean of unreached place for Korean writers. Kim Do-youn’s short story “Zero hour Buenos Aires”would be an relevant work. Second, visiting place - an experiential space : Some narration works reflect the real experience to visit Latin America. For example, in Shin Kyoun-suk’s fiction “Leaving home”, a narrator realizes the mean of family and hometown through the journey. In Jung Eulbyung’s s story“ The Door to Nature”, a narrator gets to know Korean immigrants situation and the destruction of Mayan civilization. In Kim Hyun-jung’s film “Double Agent”, characters are cast out from both North and South Korea, and move to Rio de Janeiro for now life, but finally get shot. Third, witness land - a historical space : The first generation of Korean immigrants settled down at peninsula de Yucatan in Mexico. They wanted to go to paradise, but worked hard in uncultivated farm. Many people died because of the harsh environment and physical labor, however some overcame the difficulties and established new society. Kim Sang-youl’s drama “Anniquin”describes this historical fact, that adapted for movie and musical. Kim Young-ha’s novel “Black Flower”is also relevant work. Fourth, the land of challenge and frustration - a living space : Korean immigrants to Latin America was regularized by Korean government since 1962. Kim Yong-sung’s novel“ Immigrant”reflects the character of various class and focused on the whole lives of Korean immigrants. Baik Si-jong’s fiction “Iguassu Falls”reveals immigrants’expedient and illegal action for economic success. Bae Youn-suk’s film “Do U Cry 4 Me Argentina”tells the sense of alienation of young immigrant group called‘1.5 generation’.

An issue currently being raised in Korea is “multiculturalism. I argue that multicultural education is not for minority protection, but should cater to a “majority”. We should recognize the multicultural difference can be used as a motivating power for social evolution. One method for multicultural education we are tapping is the efficiency of storytelling. The following is based on multicultural education disposition construction and management in Pyeongtek University. We have produced results through “Cloning Orientalism”, including recognizing conditions concerning majorities. We have realized that a“ multicultural difference“ is not an outsider group but one that is included in society. For better recognition of the majority culture, we should be aware of the differences contained in diversity. This diversity effects change in individuals’lives. Museums are locations which show that “stories are the telling”, displaying direction and introducing skills of storytelling, and thus have special qualities. These qualities include interaction, multimedia, and networking. There are interactions of various forms between the exhibition and spectators, and between exhibitions. Exhibitions in museums concerning multiculturalism education are considered from the point of view of the spectator. When spectators experience an educational program exhibition, they should feel emotional, not only towards the instruction, which is one-way illuminism. Instruction should be a conversion of storytelling around schema, as well as the age group of the majority of learners and spectators. For better recognition of educational dispositions, those who have experience in education are regarded as story tellers. Storytelling is a very effective skill for the education-centered area, as well as the edutainment area. Stories are made with new information, and users’ personal and social worlds must be considered, which assist the learner to learn more effectively, incorporating information and knowledge. Therefore, better recognition programs like multicultural education story telling can be an efficient way to feel familiarity. And in this way new information may be inputted as well as new emotions.

Korea’s diaspora literature is a precious asset of Korean literature and must be widely read by many local readers. This study proposed the use of UCC(User-created Content) as a means to bring diaspora writers and literatures closer to the public. UCC of diaspora literature are UCC creations that contain artist-centered contents, literaturecentered contents, or artist/literature-centered contents. These UCC pieces have the capability to popularize diaspora literature as they are characterized by diversity of creators, easy creation, easy sharing, and varieties of use. If diaspora literature UCC can be widely shared by Web users, the regional and cultural limitations of diaspora literature will be overcome. These UCC will reflect both literature contents and unique originality of creators, and will contribute to creating ‘culturally sound UCC’.