최명익 『서산대사』의 『평양지』 수용과 평양 공간의 재구성

Abstract

This paper examined the relationship of acceptance between 『Pyongyang-ji』 and Choi Myeong-ik’s history novel, 『Ambassador Seosan』 describing the process of restoring Pyongyang by monk soldiers and people during the Imjin War. First, this paper analyzed the political situation in North Korea after liberation and the development of 『Pyongyang-ji』. Subsequently, it examined how 『Ambassador Seosan』 transformed and expanded 『Pyongyang-ji』. While describing the Imjin War, 『Ambassador Seosan』 and 『Pyongyang-ji』 emphasized Pyongyang centralism and people’s leading struggle and particularly, set the subject of history as the people who were the subjugated class and paid attention to the national salvation struggles by the monk soldiers and women. 『Ambassador Seosan』 and 『Pyongyang-ji』 are closely related to the social and cultural policies of North Korean regime in keeping with ‘Three Year Post-war Recovery Plan’. While 『Pyongyang-ji』 was summoned and restored as historical facts, 『Ambassador Seosan』 restored Pyongyang's spirits by reconstructing the narratives describing the vivid landscape as background. 『Ambassador Seosan』 presented a model of reconstruction of socialist planned city of Pyongyang and at the same time, is a narrative reflecting the comfort and expectation of the devastated Pyongyang people who are completely destroyed.