『붉은저고리』와 『아이들보이』의 역사인물 이미지 연구

Abstract

This study examined how the moral training discourse of Choi Nam-seon was embodied in the stories on historical figures. Choi Nam-seon came across the “Self-Help” by Samuel Smiles from early 1900s and translated it from 1913. Then, he published a part of “Self-Help” in 1918. In other words, the period when he translated “Self-Help” was overlapped with the period when the children’s magazines “Red Jacket” and “Idle Boy” were published. Accordingly, it seems that “Self-Help” might have influence on both magazines. Most figures published in “Red Jacket” and “Idle Boy” were ordinary persons and spent childhood which was far below the criteria of mediocrity but became the great men through infinite endeavor. In other words, most figures were a kind of ‘hard-working’ persons. The method of moral training is practicing. Practicing is the ‘endeavor’ and the ‘painstakingness’. Practicing is explained by ‘three tests’. Solgeo passed through three tests and got the marble named ‘trust’. The marble ‘trust’ symbolizes the ‘self-help’, that is, the spirit of independence. Choi Nam-seon proposed diligence, integrity, endurance and painstakingness as the identity of state construction which had to be built by the ‘workers of Korea’ through the Solgeo Story. However, the helpers were always with the self-help figures. The helpers played the roles as the ‘senior’ whom Choi Nam-seon thought. What the helpers, that is, the ‘senior’, tried to enlighten was about ‘endeavor’, ‘endurance’, ‘honesty’, ‘purity’ and noble personality. Most figures published in “Red Jacket” and “Idle Boy” were ordinary persons and spent childhood which was far below the criteria of mediocrity but became the great men through infinite endeavor. In other words, most figures were a kind of ‘hard-working’ persons. The method of moral training is practicing. Practicing is the ‘endeavor’ and the ‘painstakingness’. Practicing is explained by ‘three tests’. Solgeo passed through three tests and got the marble named ‘trust’. The marble ‘trust’ symbolizes the ‘self-help’, that is, the spirit of independence. Choi Nam-seon proposed diligence, integrity, endurance and painstakingness as the identity of state construction which had to be built by the ‘workers of Korea’ through the Solgeo Story. However, the helpers were always with the self-help figures. The helpers played the roles as the ‘senior’ whom Choi Nam-seon thought. What the helpers, that is, the ‘senior’, tried to enlighten was about ‘endeavor’, ‘endurance’, ‘honesty’, ‘purity’ and noble personality. The reason why Choi Nam-seon embodied the ‘self-help’ in the stories on figures was to emphasize the ‘self-help’ for the future of the Korean people by inducing children to developing their own capabilities. Accordingly, the ‘self-help’ for Choi Nam-seon was for the self-help(spirit of independence) of all Korean people beyond the success of individual life.