탈북자 소설에 드러난 한국자본주의의 문제점 연구 - 박덕규 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This study set out to investigate the novels of Park Deok-gyu, who had reflected North Korean defectors in a continuous and serious manner, and thus to look into the nature of Korean capitalism. First, it was observed that North Korean defectors developed a sense of difference suddenly being exposed to capitalism. Mistaking their economic superiority as psychological superiority, South Koreans treated them in a high-handed manner. Living in the South Korean society day after day, they developed a double identity as man-in-the middle. In addition, the absence of a social network between South Koreans and them made them feel alienated. The conflicts and hardship they feel in the South Korean society clearly reveal the heterogeneous aspects of life between North and South Korea. By reviewing the nature of Korean capitalism from the viewpoint of North Korean defectors, the investigator showed that it was pariah capitalism that treated North Korean defectors as a product and was obsessed with turning them into resources. The critical perspective of North Korean defectors to look at South Koreans, who were surrounded by pleasure and materialism, offered an opportunity for us to reflect on how we looked. Literary works that depict the lives of North Korean defectors in South Korea will play a very critical role in overcoming the separation between two Koreas and finding ways to the integration of two Koreas. In future, the literature of North Korean defectors should expand into advanced unification literature beyond separation literature by searching for the ways to narrow the cultural gap between North and South Korea based on the awareness of those issues, encouraging the South Korean society that's losing human morality to engage in strict self-reflection, and probing the matter of reeducating North Korean defectors.