朱耀翰의 言語 民族主義와 國民詩歌의 創案

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the process in which Ju Yo-han came to recognize Jo-Sun language as the genuine Korean language and create the ‘national melodic poem.' At the age of thirteen, Ju Yo-han began to learn ‘the world' and ‘literature' under the Japanese educational system. He built up his self-identity through Japanese language and, later, made a formal debut in the Japanese literary circles. Such experience made it possible to publish, in Japan, the literary magazine <Creation> which was written in Jo-Sun language. The publication of <Creation> gave him much delight deriving from the discovery of his own mother tongue. Ju Yo-han's great impression of the mother tongue and the 1919 Independence Movement drove himself to the Chinese city of Sanghae, where he took charge of publishing the organ of Korean provisional government, <Independence Newspaper>. He was greatly delighted to undertake various publishing tasks such as gathering news material, editing, correction, and even the type founding-setting-picking of Jo-Sun language. At last, he printed the first issue all through the night, weeping to discover the value of Jo-Sun language as Korean ethnic tongue. Under the colonized situation where Japanese was the enforced national language, Ju Yo-han regarded Jo-Sun language as the representing system of an independent nation-state, and advocated the establishment of Jo-Sun language as the national tongue and its conservation. With him, all the works were important means of independence movement. Ju Yo-han pursued national unification by constructing the ‘national language', a system symbolizing the national consciousness of oneness. It was Ju Yo-han's national melodic poem that he created to realize the establishment of ‘national language' through literary diction.