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Abstract

Before and after the 1920's, the individual writing planning, with a motto of human nature and life, was circulated, replicated, and reproduced. This phenomenon of writing that was dominating the media carries an implication in the history of literature in that it shows the appearance of a private person and discovery of an individual ego. This paper inquires why myriads of individual authors, whom those texts represent, are remembered as if they were a monotonous single voice. In addition, it pays attention to the point that the contents and methods of writing, which are argued to express an individual emotion, mostly exist in a very similar way. In due course, it attempts to explicate the reasons why the sense of coercion, rather than 'sympathy' which this writing planning aims at, is predominant, and why the force of a group or the elite, rather than an individual, who is representing or can represent this type of writing, is sensed more strongly even though a private feeling and self are emphasized. It is undeniable that the discussion about the establishment of a modern ego and discovery of an individual mind in the study of modern Korean literature became possible since a new way of writing, enabling that discussion, was institutionalized. It is, however, also undeniable that the outpouring of feelings, with a confessional style as in a diary or letter, which showed up due to that novel way of writing, was dominating the media in the same fashion as the writing of enlightenment which wielded the media with another distinct style. The way of writing that is expressional of an individual, if not confidential, seems obviously to be a composing style of securing the author's identity. The identity, here, is assessed to be a realization and establishment of a collective subject, rather than a modern individual, that acts as a trigger for the modern culture of Joseon, with an obligation to lead, illuminate, and preoccupy modernity. That collective subject, symbolized as a youth in the media, is a modem nucleus, and can be embodied in an intellectual benefited from a new education, i.e., a student having studied abroad. In this context, the writings of Sang-yoon Hyun are uniquely situated because they are eliminating the privileged gesture. He, unlike the other those-days modern discussions that were continuously ascertaining the collective identity of intellectuals, was a modern individual who ventured on a writing with a center around the human interior.