‘한하운 시집 사건’(1953)의 의미와 이병철

Abstract

When the 2nd edition of <Selection of Han Ha-Woon’s poems> appeared, an article, “Pour National Hatred upon Han Ha-Woon’s Songs of Enemies’ Flag and the Wirepuller” was published. The article suggested that <Selection of Han Ha-Woon’s poems> was only a means of propaganda and instigation of communists and Lee Byung-Chul was the worker behind the scenes, Han being nothing but an abata. The negative public opinion amplified by the article caused National Police, Prosecutors Office and National Assembly to get involved. So, directly after the Korean Armistice, the literary circles of South Korea saw the anti-communism frame of the cold war period being built up and a great reshuffle occurring inside. The aim of this paper is to examine the case of Han Ha-Woon’s Anthology. Its main focus was put on Lee Byung-Chul who was in charge of the editorial work and publication of the 1st edition of <Selection of Han Ha-Woon’s poems>. Lee Byung-Chul was an avant-garde poet and communist in the period of Korean Liberation. He began the underground anti-government activities when the separate single government was built in South Korea in August, 1948 and the national security law was proclaimed in December. At last he became the one wanted by the Police and driven to one of the social others. The paper also made a survey of the process of Lee’s self-rediscovery through his encounter with a leper poet, Han Ha-Woon. Lee found a common destiny between a leper and a communist as social outsiders. During the Korean War, Lee Byung-Chul went over to North Korea. Beacuse the 2nd edition of <Selection of Han Ha-Woon’s poems> appeared just before the armistice(July 27. 1953), the rumor that Lee sneaked into South Korea as a cultural guerrilla for communism aroused a disturbance. The literary circles of South Korea, getting frightened and divided, went so far as to mutual complaints and bitter hatred among literary men. The case caused the literary field of South Korea restructured under the principle of anti-communism.