『청맥(靑脈)』 혹은 실종된 유산들의 아카이브－1960년대 중반 통일 담론을 중심으로－

Abstract

Chungmaek(靑脈) was a culture magazine founded in 1964 when people were protesting the normalization of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Japan (which occurred on June 3rd) This study examined Chungmaek to determine how the unification discourses of the April 19 Revolution period were brought into the public sphere again in the mid-1960s and how their structure and content changed. Chungmaek can be considered a successor of the discourses that the 1960 civil revolution created because the magazine tried to possess exclusively the symbol of youth, the leading force behind the April 19 Revolution. Specifically, Chungmaek served as a kind of social archive that preserved unification discourses. Its most innovative features were seen after the April 19 Revolution. It was an experimental print media that steadily updated the denotation and connotation of the unification discourses despite the emergence of new domestic and international variables and constraints in the mid-1960s. This study examined how the two representative civil society unification theories that emerged during the April 19 Revolution period, the theory of inter-Korean negotiations and the theory of neutralization, were renewed and presented new discursive attempts through Chungmaek while avoiding censorship and legal sanctions by the authorities. The magazine strategically used the concept of peace as its guiding concept while steadily informing readers about the multi-polar Cold War and trends in third world nationalism. Peace was a concept through which unification could plausibly be discussed without denying the ruling power’s concept of modernization. As such, Chungmaek emphasized the importance of national identities based on the concept of peace while attempting to overcome the exclusiveness of nationalism through the ideas of permanent peace and cosmopolitan citizenship.