金光淳 所藏 筆寫本 韓國 古小說의 現況과 資料的 價値

Abstract

This paper examines five hundred fictional stories of hand-writing edition in the Kim Kwangsoon collection of premodern fiction and provides an index to this collection. First of all, this study traces sources of fictional stories, which help us understand the reception and circulation of traditional fiction, and locates that most stories appearing in the collection are from Yôngnam province. Second, this study addresses the significance of the collection as a precious cultural asset of Korean tradition. The stories have potentials to be made into various forms of media and art such as new story-telling, film, drama, animation, and also they can be used in visual media. Third, it is necessary to make this collection more available to the modern readers. Since most texts exist in a form of hand-written manuscripts, it is also important to translate these texts into modern Korean. In terms of preservation and circulation of premodern source, I suggest that we should discover and collect premodern fiction at a place and also secure a space for reading the collected works in order to make the stories readable and accessible not only for scholars but also for the younger generations.