탈북자의 고통과 그 치유적 가능성- 탈북 작가가 쓴 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper has a dash at searching how did North Korean female defectors treat their sense of loss which had experienced at escaping from North Korea and settling down in South Korea through the medium of 『Love Song of the young』 written by Kim, Yu-gyong, who is a North Korean defector. First of all, I divided the physical and mental trauma which had been gained by North Korean female defectors at the process that goes through the China into loss of language, denial and immersing to alternative stimulus. After having been gang raped, Sunhwa didn’t want to confess that to her fellow defectors even though they were definitely like her family and Bok-nyeo got married to a chinese but she stick ed Chung, her daugnter, to deny the nationality of her father. And Gyoug-ok, who having been human trafficed to karaoke in china, wanted to be compensated her sense of loss with money. Sunhwa recovered her own language through showing the disgrace of the past. Bok-nyeo didn’t tell the presence of husband to her daughter, because she was a North Korean woman who had a independent will and didn’t want to be subordinate to others rather than ashamed of her life. And Gyoug-ok rapidly realized nothing was eternal through the death of Sunhwa. The next thing, this paper had inquired into the posssibilities that healing the social stigma result from economic differences while North Korean female defectors settled down in South Korea. It is the emphasis of 『Love Song of the young』 that had dealed with different form of life amang North Korean female defectors and that is why this book differs from other novels which had be the same subject matter. Gyoug-ok obsessed with economic power because there were different social bases between Misun and Gyoug-ok. In addition, the economic distress and culture shock which had been experienced by North Korean defectors, differ sharply from marriage and working condition. it had been called minority by Bok-nyeo and Sunhwa, who practiced labor value personally and tried to overcome economic differences with first-hand experience. it differed from previous novels, that described North Korean defectors as strangers in South Korea. 『Love Song of the young』 is the only work dealed with living abroad time including China among novels written by North Korean defectors, in this novel, an ego, which was recovered from the point of connection between my pain and others, and it also can be evaluated as an record of settlement by North Korean female defectors who had positive and healthy mind.