대전 지역 6·25 전쟁 체험담의 유형별 특성과 존재 양상

Abstract

After collecting and recorded stories about the Korean War experiences in the Daejeon area for a period from 2012 to 2016, this paper investigated the characteristics and existence aspects of the stories according to their types. The types of stories about the Korean War experiences currently available in the Daejeon area can be divided into stories about combat experiences and stories about civilians’ war experiences according to whether the subjects of the experiences are soldiers or civilians. The stories about combat experiences are discourses on the experiences of battles in the Korean War, with soldiers being set as the subjects of the experiences, and enemy forces as the objects that came in conflict with the subjects. The stories about civilians’ war experiences are divided into stories about war experiences as refugees and stories about war experiences as civilians according to whether they experienced the war as refugees or civilians who remained in their residential regions. The stories about experiences as refugees are discourses on hardships during the war as wanderers leaving their homes due to the war, and it may be said that the object in conflict with refugees, who are the subjects of the experiences, is the very war itself. The stories about war experiences as civilians are divided into stories about damage by the enemy and stories about damage by our troops according to whether the occupiers of one’s own residential region were North Korean people’s army, or South Korean army or police. The stories about damage by the enemy are narratives in which the North Korean people’s army or ‘local commies’ and partizans in South Korea taking the side with the North Korean people’s army, who are set as the objects of conflict, killed or imposed hardships on civilians, who are the subjects of experiences. The stories about damage by our troops are narratives in which our army and police killed or imposed hardships on residents of specific regions, pointing out them as commies. The existence aspects of stories about Korean War experiences in the Daejeon region are as follows: The first is discourses saying that one day ‘the war broke out suddenly.’ The second is discourses depicting the horrors of the war, such as hunger and mutual killing in battles with guns & swords or bombing. The third is discourses on hardships caused by army or police. They include stories about hardships inflicted by the North Korean camp such as the North Korean people’s army and local reds & partizans directly after the outbreak of the war, and stories about hardships inflicted by South Korean army and police after recapture. The last one is humanity having shone in the war. Beautiful stories about helping neighbors in peril of death fall under this. The stories about the Korean War experiences in the Daejeon region primarily have research value as oral literature in that they are based on strong desire for discourse. In addition, it may be said that they have value as oral literature because discourses on slaughter committed on a mass scale in the Daejeon region are surely mentioned within the transmission group, albeit partially, with actual place names, and the phenomenon of stories about the experiences being legendized is found from the phenomenon that some of the discourses are misrepresented and supported.