백화점 붕괴의 기억과 재난 자본주의 : 삼풍 참사의 서사화와 쓰기-노동의 윤리

Abstract

This paper reveals the problem of disaster capitalism and consider the meaning of remembering and recording disaster through the novels describing Sampung department store collapse accident. With this point of view, this work has analyzed Sampung Department store (2004) of Jeong Ihyeon, The dream of Gangnam (2010) of Hwang Seokyoung and Sampung: The night of festival (2012) of Mun Hongju including articles of newspaper and oral records. The way of novel writing, which describes the problem of danger in everyday life related with disaster, reveals the dark side of disaster happened and makes an issue of danger before disaster which has socially formed and defined. This way secures a passage of condolences and cure against government power which has declared that ‘this incident is done’. The novel of Jeong Ihyeon restores individuality of victims which has been remembered only by the collective number. And a character of this novel feels that a cruel imagination for victims disgrace the death of them. In addition, the novel of Hwang Seokyoung reveals ever-present dangers of disaster by reconstructing not only the time of victim but also that of assailant. The record of the development of Gangnam in Korea as a novel, makes it possible that readers permanently convict assailants beyond punishment of law. The novel of Mun Hongju recreates poorness of governmental system or anger and sense of loss of bereaved family, which have not been exposed under the close relationship among business circles, political circles and mass media. His writing is not only a resistance against the mass media of the day but also an action which erases ethical emotions for victims or bereaved families. Like these examples, a disaster in a novel revives individuals and society in the context of the age and shows irrationality and crack of capitalism. Furthermore, remembering disaster and reconstructing the disaster in various ways, have a meaning as a method that breaks the authority up, which defines concepts surrounding disaster.