한일회담, 베트남 그리고 김수영

Abstract

There have already been many discussions about the fact that the central theme of Kim Soo-young’s poetry has changed since 1964. This article aims to examine the relationship between Kim Soo-young’s literature and Vietnam. 1964 and 1965 were the times when the historical facts of the Korea-Japan agreement and the decision to dispatch troops to Vietnam were confirmed. Although the academic community has already given the name ‘65-year system’, it can be seen that there are not many discussions in Korean literature on this topic. This means that our own perception of the 65-year system is not very deep. Bringing this issue to Soo-young Kim, we confirmed the following: 1) In the sense that the Korea-Japan agreement and the dispatch of troops to Vietnam are linked to the East Asian system of the time, Kim Soo-young’s memory and reaction to the modern colonial system and post-war democracy are analyzed. Kim Soo-young does not stop as a poet of 4.19 rather shows the image of a global citizen responding to the imperial order. This is the historical layer of his poetry. 2) The point is that it insists on the discourse of democracy that realizes the response to the colonial system through small-scale practice of individuals rather than oblivion. This is the political layer of his poetry. This is also a confirmation of the ethics of contemporary Korean literature, and this thesis examines that this ethics is related to the contemporary Vietnam War.