이준연 동화 연구

Abstract

To summarize and characterize Lee, Jun-Yeon’s tale, it is about seeking our historical values and perspectives that have been vanishing along with the presence of the modern civilization. Such values and perspectives are;fading traditional lifestyles due to the materialistic emphasis, folk religions and beliefs such as Do-Ke-Bi (a Korean traditional folk ghost) and Suh-Nang-Dang (a traditional folk temple), and warm empathy and sharing mind for others that the old lady Song-Gol continues to demonstrate in the story despite of her unfortunate situations. Therefore, through his tale, he demonstrates consistent ideological principles that emphasize the acceptance of traditional values, restoration of our customs and warm humanity, and responsibility to protect the demolishing nature through a philosophical perception of loving and appreciating life. He portrays a strong thesis by using metaphoric comparisons such as a Do-Ke-Bi to a robot, traditional houses to apartments, small towns to megacities, and a boy to a king. His natural and extraordinary literacy styles as well as highly probable and well arranged plots are the true artistic merits of his works. His sentences are not flashy rough yet rather kept as simple as possible and very controlled to serve their purposes.