방각소설 출판과 관련된 몇 가지 문제 -방각소설의 출판과 언어ㆍ문화의 표준화-

Abstract

The block print edition is the book published by wood-print for commercial profit. A story of the block print edition has a simple and distinct plot for the reader not to lose his interest. Thus these stories are called xerographic stories. According to the colophons of block print edition, Gu-un-mong(九雲夢) written by classical Chinese was engraved at Geum- seong-o-mun(錦城午門) in the year Eul-sa(乙巳: 1725), and Im- gyeong-eob-jeon(임경업전) written by Korean was engraved at Gyeong-gi(京畿) in the year Gyeong-ja(庚子: 1780). I am not sure whether Gu-un-mong is a voluntary publishing or a commercial publishing. It is not certain whether Gu-un-mong is a commercial publishing or not. Is the meaning of Gyeong-gi the location or the government? If it is a location, Im-gyeong-eob-jeon is a commercial publishing. If it is not a location but a government, Im-gyeong-eob-jeon is not a commercial publishing. According to the using-method of colophon, the colophon Gyeong-gi is an irregular usage. Thus it can not be a location but a government. But the colophon Gyeong-gi is not an irregular usage. The colophon of Seol-in- gwi-jeon(설인귀전) shows the same type usage, like this: engraved at Gyeong-seong(경성). So Gyeong-gi or Gyeong-seong is not an irregular usage but an ordinary usage. Now Gyeong-gi must be a location and Im-gyeong-eob-jeon must be a commercial publishing. There needs a more information to give a full detail of block print publisher and of management accounting such as: how many copies did they print, how much did they pay for the engraving and so on. Commercial publishing by common people and for common people led them to the new world and the new consciousness- standardization of written language particularly.