<아름다운 이야기할머니> 사업의 의의와 지역문화유산 활용의 전망

Abstract

A purpose of this article is to recognize importance of traditional story culture, and to find restoration method of an ordinary storytelling culture which has been weakened by the dissolving of community and development of modern digital culture. In this article, it was collected to the three cases that performing fields of 'beautiful storytelling grandmother'. An aspect of modern story culture as a section of education is need to recognize the revitalization of story culture. The traditional oral literature stories as a main-body of story culture have been disappeared out the aspects of performance and transmission in ordinary life. The storytelling grandmother who are remarked in this article, is a community that had a contents of a beautiful storytelling grandmother course supported by 'Korean Studies Advancement Center' and 'the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism'. Conclusionally, the project of 'beautiful storytelling grandmother' is also meaningful to improve social role and status of the elderly who are alienated from the center of culture as a responsible class of traditional culture. Storytelling to children of next generation by old ladies has a meaning of communication between generations and translation of period as a practice of ecological children education of our ancestors in the past. Storytelling by a beautiful storytelling grandmother is delivered to children by internalizing their life in the story. Our childhood generation who grow with listening to traditional stories could be a new storytellers of new generation that make traditional storytelling culture to ordinary culture. Lastly, the project of 'beautiful storytelling grandmother' need to use a local cultural heritages spontaneously.