만주 기행문 연구

Abstract

Lee Tae Joon, Lee Gi Young, Ham Dae Hoon, and Chae Man Sik traveled all over Manchuria, and made travel sketches of their own. These four writings are not unrestricted travel sketches, which were not written by Korean writers’ selection choices, neither by their own judgement decisions, but which are regarded as the situation publicity materials under powerful suspicion, for which were composed according to certain kinds of intentions and certain purposes. Their Manchuria itinerary were made for a week or in less than one month. It is almost impossible to grasp the meaning of Korean settlers’ real lives after looking around Chosun villagers during this term. Accordingly, most Korean writers had to be dependent on the intelligentsia’s speeches on the scene, and statistics information of government and other public offices, with these respects these travel description writings create apparent characteristics revealing Japanese imperialistic national policy information publicity. Manchurian travel sketches characters can be classified with extents from their responses ; one by unseen ideology fictitious concept or clouded aspects, the other by overlooking on purpose. Once deliberate that the circumstances Manchurian visitations were encouraged of the link of national policy internally in Japan, it is surmised that observation and regulations severely pressured over Koran literary men. Ham Dae Hoon felt the lack of unseeing pleasure resorts in Harbin when he completing travel, Lee Gi Young wore ‘Jeekadabee(지까다비)’, looked around collective farm, and settled his lunch with only ‘Bento and whisky’, and Chae Man Sik was treated Manchurain resident Chosun people as combatants of the food stuffs. However, Lee Tae Joon were interested in the histories and cultures of Chosun and China, and in the poverty of both nations, and he examined residents’ living standard and prospect on their future lives in the place of occurring ‘Mt. Manbo Event’. Lee Gi Young and Chae Man Sik did not record on going in and out into the amusement places, but they described the situation reports on the spots based on the speeches from the people who reside on the circumference of government offices. When consider this aspect, travel descriptions of Ham Dae Hoon, and Chae Man Sik should be responsible for misleading us by causing us misunderstood with their exaggeration and beautification of the cultivation villagers situations from description on Manchuria of a Utopia.