『아이들보이』의 아동문학사적 의의에 대한 연구

Abstract

The children's magazine 《Aideulboi》, which 'Shinmungwan' published in 1913, played an important role in developing Korean children's literature. Some researchers insists that the《Eorini》 written by Bang Jeong-hwan should be considered as the beginning of children's literature. However, I consider the 《Aideulboi》 is the first step of the children's literature. There are reasons why the《Aideulboi》 is the first children's magazine in terms of three aspects which are reader, writer, and text. First, the fact that《Aideulboi》set children as the main readers is important, because the true beginning of modern children's literature begins with the ‘discovery of children’. At the first issue of《Aideulboi》, they declared that they chose children as the main reader group. Also they published the magazines that positioned its contents and text exactly to elementary school level. Secondly, when we consider the writer as one of the factor that formed the children's literature, the writer groups of 《Aideulboi》 was incomplete. However, it was the limitation of that period. In this period of Korea, Choi nam-seon and Lee gwang-su was the only writer not only in the children's literature but also in the adult literary world. Third, the most significant factor of forming children’s literature is the text. Variety of literary works in; 《Aideulboi》 spread the children's literatures to the children in those times and to the writers of next generation, and one of its works was the first modern children’s story which was the great contribution to the development of children literature. Also,《Aideulboi》 included work which can be considered as the early children’s song. This song tells about emotion of the real life of children, so it is not inferior to the children’s song in 1920s. For these reasons,《Aideulboi》 had grown to the cradle of early children's literature.