1980년대 서울 위성도시의 장소성과 일상성의 문제 - 양귀자 연작소설 『원미동 사람들』을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the issues of place and daily life of satellite cities in Seoul in the 1980s, focusing on 『the people of Wonmi-dong』. For this purpose, paying attention to the specific placeness of Wonmi-dong, The hierarchy of urban space that spatially divides the residential class, the situation of urban space simmering with desire and the deceitful usage of perpetuating it, the hypocrisy and secularism that are present in the lives of the common crowd, the problem of placelessness in urban space and impossibility of realizing biophilia, Finally, we examined the problem of false consciousness and self-reflection of petit bourgeois. Urban space is hierarchized within the structure of the metropolitan area where Seoul and its surrounding cities, which grew into metropolises of over 10 million in the 1980s, are connected to each other to form conurbation and proper acceptance and distribution of urban populations is a sharp political issue surrounding human waste. The desire of urban space is the acceleration of capitalist society and the desires and intrigues surrounding it. In that sense, the value of freedom of choice on the soil of capital is an illusion. Moreover, the hybrid space of the common crowd called Wonmi-dong appears to be seemingly linked with reciprocity and solidarity, but the reality repeats the process of constant competition for survival. Modern cities create a homogenized space on the place that eliminates the irregularities and diversity of anthropological space and achieve internal norms accordingly. The land that the Old Man Gang is trying to protect is a place insisting on the land in the traditional sense on the other side of the loss of place transformed into a small-capacity space filled with houses. Furthermore, Wonmi Mountain is presented as an biophilia space that cannot be returned beyond the traditional space symbolized by the fields of the Old Man Gang. The living space of the residents of Wonmi-dong is the endless battlefield for survival. In that sense, the moment when the consciousness of petit bourgeois is trapped in false consciousness and awakens through everyday small moments is has a more important political meaning than embellishing their lives with unreal people's consciousness of empathy and solidarity.