8․15 해방 후 신문의 문화적 기능과 신문소설 - 식민유산의 해체와 전환을 중심으로

Abstract

Korean modern newspaper had been functioned more than as a media. While it was performing as an organization for a ‘save-the-nation movement’ and the public enlightenment, it made a peculiar concept of the newspaper. So, the public expected the role of a newspaper a lot. The public recognized that it should lead them and the nucleus of a newspaper was a patriot. In the aspect of culture, especially privately- managed newspaper from the 1920s to the 1930s exerted a strong influence on a new literature and literary circles in Joseon. This feature had influenced after Korean Liberation. So, the contradictory double- sideness of publics and marketability of newspaper, and culture and marketability of the newspaper literature coped with and adjusted to changes of the times. Meanwhile, the newspaper functioned as a culture and it was no less than the past. In this process, the inheritance produced by combining with newspaper and literature, the custom derived from them, and internalized ideology were demolished and changed. In aspect of the newspaper, not only the importance of literary strategies and the literature arrangement, but also the intimate network between the literary circles and the newspaper representing arts and science, the being of literary journalist, the base of the production and formation of the literary discussion and exclusive sectarianism between newspaper and journalists were demolished. It is a serial story in a newspaper that exposes these aspects most. It is esteemed highly comparing to the past because of the selection and concentration of the literary strategy which has a standard on the merchantable quality. During the colonial era, a long serial story made up only 50 percent in a serial newspaper. However, for 30 years after Korean Liberation, it made up 95 percent in it. That is, the long serial story had infinite growth in the systematic boundary called ‘newspaper’. So, the writers had to write focusing on newspaper choice. Also, the popularity of a serial story which was different from the past was strengthened and the mutual exclusive notion to culture and popularity proceeded to extremes. Also, because of political authority, newspaper capital, Self-Regulatory Organization and readers, the diversified censorship affects on the rules from writing materials, topics to the way of imagery. In this unfavorable condition, there were many changes. They were the supports from newspaper capital, high editorial readership and the changed positive notion of the literary circles to popularity. So, a serial story in a newspaper achieved a symbol authority as a representation of the literature at least until 1970s.