이야기 문화 再構를 통한 문화 공동체 회복의 가능성

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a plan to reconstruct modern story culture and the possibility of restoring cultural community through it. To this end, we expanded and examined the aspects of story culture during the Japanese colonial period before the division, along with traditional story culture, and compared the changes in story culture between the South and the North after the division. Through this, methods such as discovery and distribution of story texts, training of storytellers, and restoration of storytelling scene were proposed, and the possibility of restoration of cultural communities, including South and North Korea, through story culture was presented. In previous research, when diagnosing traditional story culture, attention was mainly paid to ‘Jeongisu’, a professional storyteller. However, by expanding our perspective to find the story culture that was enjoyed in daily life even before the advent of Jeongisu, we were able to derive various storytellers, audiences, story texts, and methods of structuring storytelling scene. This culture of everyday stories continued throughout the Japanese colonial period and into the 2000s, not only in downtown parks but also as everyday culture. After the division, South Korea's story culture naturally maintained its existence in a difficult situation where it did not receive government support or academic attention, but has recently shown signs of shrinking. However, in the case of North Korea, in the process of building a socialist state system, there was a policy tendency to actively utilize story culture for the edification of the people. As a result, North Korea can be diagnosed as still enjoying the ‘story era’. This policy of supporting North Korea's story culture can be sufficiently reflected in rebuilding a new story culture. An exemplary example of rebuilding the story culture that has shrunk in modern times is the ‘Beautiful Story Grandmother’ project. In addition, we propose to try out a concrete new plan, the ‘Jeongisu Resurrection Project in the Downtown Area.’ Enjoying story culture may have superficial effects such as preserving traditional culture and developing tourism content, but inwardly, it can be a wise alternative that can mediate conflicts between regions or generations and seek the restoration of cultural communities.