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Abstract

The purpose of this study is about Lee Yong-Ak’s the activities with them the south korean worker’s party and the meaning in the liberation period. Because Lee Yong-Ak had the sudden political changes as compared with his political activities under japanese colonial rule in the liberation period, and there was the south korean worker’s party in the center of changes. The activities are summarized in the following two activities-as the left-wing newspaper reporter and the leadership of Korean writers alliance. These activities were closely connected with the south korean worker’s party. But the empirical studies about these activities in advanced researches have been hardly performed until now, so this study try to investigate process of political change of Lee Yong-Ak with the south korean worker’s party as the center by positive method. Joongang newspaper was the left-wing newpaper that Lee Yong-Ak worked in firstly in liberation period. He met Lee sang-ho who had been the managing editor of Joongang newspaper, became the managing editor of the south korean worker’s party paper a year later, and worked with him together. On May 1947, Lee Yong-Ak became the managing editor of the culture newspaper which was one of the south korean worker’s party papers. He was selected by Kim Yung-kun who was the leader of Federation of Korean Cultural Organization which was one of the an extra-departmental body of the south korean worker’s party. On August 1946, Turning cultural popularization movement of Korean Writers Alliance, Lee Yong-Ak was appointed the head of a propaganda department of the Seoul branch in Korean Writers Alliance, and was appointed the head of organization department of the branch 3 month later. Therefore he had emerged the key figure in the movement. Munhwagongjakdae was in the peak of his activities like this. But after that, Lee Yong-Ak disappeared from the record about Korean Writers Alliance’s activities during 1 year. Once again, his name was showed in the record of ‘the statement of 330 people who work in culture and art’ which demand troop withdrawals of the U.S Army and the Soviet Army for the establishment of united government. Since then, he had carried out the under activities of the South Korean Workers’ Party until he was arrested. This is the most point in his political changes because it is presumed that he will get a firm political faith of the South Korean Workers’ Party in this period. The process of his political change show us how a man who passes a period of turbulence cope with the situation. His changes were the changes which based on experience of historical event called October People`s Strife and were started from his inner side. So his political changes had been the sincerity enough to change his poetic world. This point is the most meaning which his political changes show us.