1950년대 안동민의 라디오동화 연구

Abstract

This study aims at examining the base of children's broadcasting and the characteristics of radio fairy tales through the children's stories on the radio written by An Dong-min in the 1950s. He first created fairy tales for radio broadcast on the recommendation of Han Yong-hui who was in charge of <Children's Time> at Seoul Central Broadcasting Station. This seemed to have resulted from the increasing reputation of Han Yong-hei as a radio novelist when the broadcasting conditions in the mid-1950s improved while writers for radio literary works continued to lose ground. An Dong-min, however, had hard time in creating children's stories for radio programs. Though uncommon, his radio stories were published in a book titled “Strange Dream”, and ten of his short fairy tales are currently available for reference. Back then, existing literary works which had already been introduced in other media were broadcast most of the time, so not all of his radio stories for children can be seen as a pure literary creation. This literary creation and broadcasting practice at the time must have been an obstacle for both qualitative and quantitative growth of children's stories broadcast on the radio. As to the unique characteristics of radio fairy tales by An Dong-min, his works did not comply with literary styles for radio broadcasting. As opposed to Park Eui-seop's broadcast script in the 1930s, which were close to radio drama, his radio stories were almost same with fairy tales published in the print media. Whether this was the result of the transition to the print media or there was no specific format for broadcast script under the unfavorable creative environment at the time remains an open question. Second, he focused on the innocence of children for a principle of his radio fairy tale creation. This represents the purity of children, which can be obtained only ‘through children's eyes.’ It is up to the writer to get the childlike innocence in creating literary works, which should be received by both children and adults. Third, he emphasized simplicity in creating radio fairy tales. In order to increase the accessibility and understanding of children, the main listers, he clearly presented a story which describes how a simple conflict is resolved. Simplicity, one of the qualities that children's literature has, is used to resonate, but children's stories on the radio, compared to fables, were not that successful in achieving the simplicity. Fourth, his works were strongly enlightening by guiding the listeners to children's criteria. The characters in his radio fairly tales were used as a medium to deliver his purpose of educating children, where the writer, as an enlightening observer, considered a ‘good child’ to be a standard. Good children with innocent mind were seen as an ideal model. This seemed to be a result from several factors, including rigid operation guidelines set by the national broadcasting station at the time, people's interest in children's education and Kang So-cheon's influence who was deeply involved in <Children's Time>. These showed that An Dong-min tried to adapt to the environment for literary creation at the time to create radio fairy tales, but his literary achievement was not very impressive.