심의린의 이력과 『조선동화대집』 발간에 대한 재검토 -1926년까지 간행된 한글 설화집을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper, first of all, lists up publications of fairy tales before SHIM Ui-rin's Grand Collected Works of the Korean Fairy Tales(Choseon Donghwa Daejip, following as GCWKFT). Three points are newly acknowledged in this paper during the listing-up works. First, SHIM started to publish the Korean fairy tales in the journal New Boy(Shinsonyon) in 1924. Secondly, he corrected to publish Aesop's fables in 1925. Thirdly, he did finally publish the GCWKFT in 1926. Since the year of 2009, researches on SHIM have been consecutively appeared on the basis of the reprinted version of GCWKFT. However, small numbers of mistakes, for example, are uncovered on SHIM's currilum vitae with missing of his works in Japanese language. This paper focuses on correcting those mistakes and reconstructing SHIM's cv. There seems to be thereafter a sound ground to understand SHIM and his works. General Government of Korea published Collected Works of Korean Fairy Tales in 1924 before SHIM's work as a matter of fact. The editor of it initiating to colonize Korean children by the colonial government was Umekichi Tanaka who was a well known children's literature introducing German faily tales. A recently published article tries to introduce SHIM's work(1926) as a text of the resistant discourse against General Government's works(1924) under the scheme of dualistic perspective of colonialism versus nationalism without any serious investigation of SHIM's work. SHIM was in fact not a fariy tale writer while he was very much interested and indulged into the fairy tales. It seems to be safe for me to judge that he was pursuing to protest against the colonial policy suppressing Korean language during the Japanese colonialism. SHIM's initial intention should be recognized as he was proliferating and flourshing the Korean language against the colonial policy on language. It should be a very meaningful point to uncover the fact that SHIM's intention was aiming at protecting the Korean language against the domination of the imperial language of Japanese under the colonial situation. This author would like to pay attention to another point of acknowledgement. That is SHIM's political ideology against the pre-modern Korean society in general. He was very much critical about the traditional Korean customs and furthermore raised a question of modernization for the Korean society in terms of education for the children.