이무영과 「구인회」

Abstract

Lee Moo-young is one of the founding drivers of “Guinhoe”. He contributed quite abit to publicizing the existence of “Guinhoe”. Nevertheless, there has been no research on therelationship between Lee Moo-young and “Guinhoe” until now. This article summarizes therelationship between Lee Moo-young and “Guinhoe” and the role of Lee Moo-young in theearly days of “Guinhoe”. In addition, we estimated the time and reason for his departure from the“Guinhoe”. In the early 1930s, Lee Moo-young’s world of work was quite far from the characterof “Guinhoe” a literary movement that represented so-called “pure literature.” His work activitieswere rather a target of interest from critics in the KAPF literature fi eld due to ‘social interest’. Th ereason Lee Moo-young received the invitation to join the “Guinhoe” was because he was theeditorial manager of the Literature Times. In 1933, when “Guinhoe” was launched, the LiteratureTimes was the only literary media in Korea. As Literature Times revives as Chosun Literature, the fi rstissue is actually edited and published as a special issue of “Guinhoe”. At the time of its founding,“Guinhoe” was not a group that shared a specifi c literary trend or aimed at a specifi c goal. Forthis reason, it seems that there was a conflict in the process of publishing the first magazinewhich revealed the literary identity of members. In this process, it is judged that Lee Mooyoung’s withdrawal from “Guinhoe” took place. Th e biggest characteristic of “Guinhoe” can besummarized in its prolifi c work. Th e views of some writers on this were not friendly. If “Guinhoe”could be defi ned as a group of people with a specifi c literary inclination, so-called pure literature,this was possible only after a considerable amount of time had passed since its inception.