과학기술시대의 도시전설과 그 종교적 특성

Abstract

This article studies the contents and tradition patterns of urban legends spread among people in today 's science and technology era, and the religious character of these urban legends. To this end, I reviewed the current status and characteristics of urban legends, and analyzed the works in the book Do-Si-Goi-Dam (Urban Ghosts Stories). Books that contain titles such as 'urban legends' or 'urban ghost stories' can be classified into comics, novels, collections, and research books. Among them, most of the comic books about urban legends were translations of works by Japanese authors, and most of the novels were selected offline from popular web novels. The collections and the research books have similar proportions when translating foreign works and those written in Korea. Urban Ghosts Stories contains a total of 66 urban legends. This paper focuses on 19 urban legends in the chapter 'Mobile phones, computers, and digital cameras'. One of the most important features that penetrate 19 urban legends is that IT devices mediate the real world and the transcendent world. And it can be divided into the mediator between the living and the dead, and the mediator between man and Godhead. Due to the development of science and technology, people have largely deviated from the magical worldview. So people became more and more difficult to trust the transcendent world. But people have lived as religious beings for a very long time. It is the conclusion of this article that, in the rapid modernization, people seem to despise and deny interest in the transcendent world, while still imagining such a world and creating and passing on new urban legends.