해방기 신정언과 김동인의 활약상과 그 행방- 해방과 야담(작)가들①

Abstract

As stated in the subtitle, this paper corresponds to the first article of “Liberation and Yadamers”. The reason for planning this long-term project is because of the purpose of moving the history of Yadam, which remains in colonial times, after liberation. This paper attempted to approach this task as a clue to ‘what happened to Yadamers, famous for the colonial era, after liberation’. The famous Yadamers’ post-liberation activities, which were active during the colonial period with modern entertainment, would provide the clue. It is a question that any Yadam researcher has, but there have been no previous studies dealing with it. This paper is meaningful as an answer to this question and as a base work to advance to the history of Yadam after liberation. To this end, this paper dealt with Shin Jeong-eon and Kim Dong-in’s post-liberation activities. The main reason for choosing them is that their activities after liberation overlap. Following Shin Jeong-eon’s kidnapped to North Korea in July 1950, Kim Dong-in’s death in February 1951 tells the tragedy of the two men who failed to overcome the wave of the Korean War. It means that they have been their main activity for about five years from the day of liberation. However, it is not known what kind of activities the two actually did during this period. In Chapter 2, this paper explained this with a focus on Shin Jeong-eon, but in Chapter 3, it was discussed with Kim Dong-in. Reflecting the rare reality of previous studies, this paper also carried out a basic work of cataloging their liberation period writings. The marginal status of Yadam in Lim Hwa’s remarks, which criticized Yadamers as self-proclaimed national literary scholars, was also an extension of the colonial period, but in the liberation situation in which the two camps faced each other, it opened the stage to represent the national literature of the right wing. Chapters 2 and 3 reveal that it was given. Chapter 4 replaces the conclusion of this paper by suggesting a memory against this oblivion by retracing the background of Shin Jeong-eon’s kidnapped to North Korea, which was forgotten despite their vigorous activities.