1950년대 초반 종합지 『희망』의 반공청년 표상 연구

Abstract

This thesis aims to examine a magazine 『Hope』 in the early 1950s in an effort to shed light on the image of contemporary anti-communist youth, which was established by contemporary media in the years of war and reconstruction. The magazine kept putting emphasis on the importance of ideological battle from the first issue, and pointed out youth as ones who should lead the armed hostilities and the ideological battle to victory. The company that published the magazine issued an extra number of the magazine named 『A Decade of Liberation』 in 1955. In this extra issue, ‘the release of anti-communist POW’ was regarded as a symbolic incident that represented contemporary people's anti-communist idea as a further extension of demonstrations against ceasefire, and the demonstrations of disabled veterans who rushed into the U.S. embassy in opposition to the ceasefire was described as an important incident that triggered the release of the POW. Then what meaning is given to the descriptions of the magazine on anti-communist youth when it's assumed that these youth’s experiences would be directly reflected or that the experiences of those who met them in person would be reflected? What's noteworthy in Kim Song's writing 「The Illusion of Anger」(Dec. 1953) is a moment that someone felt foreign toward others of the same race as he or she. The opposition of the group of disabled veterans against the ceasefire put a pressure on the Lee Seung-man government who advocated it, because it might lead to hostile actions toward the UN forces. In his writing, there were obvious wariness and discomfort about the disabled veterans who staged the violent protests. Journalist Lee Hye-bok wrote in his reportage(Mar. 1954) in the magazine that there was a sign of loneliness in the face of a young man who received a bunch of flowers from a South Korean person and was moved to tears, and he exhorted readers to treat POW like family. The repeated exhortation implied that youth’s anticommunism would have faded away if they had felt lonely in South Korea. The matter of judging the ideology of anti-communist POW namely converts, was bound up with another matter of redefining who was one of the people and who wasn't. Anti-communist prosecutor Oh Je-do argued in his writing in the magazine that every people should join forces against disguised converts. As discussed so far, the complicated ways that the writers in『Hope』 looked at anti-communist youth signified that their position was ambiguous as those who weren't completely considered to be the people of South Korea, and it also reflected the inconsistent position of the contemporary government about these youth who were patriots and yet causes for alarm at the same time.