김승옥의 ‘60년대式’ 생존방식

Abstract

Kim Seung-ok's <60s style> was undervalued in his work list because of its lack of narrative completeness or aesthetic achievement. However, even if this work is overly focused on depiction and some recognition of the existing evaluation that the narrative is stronger than the structure, the significance that it shows the appearance of Korean society in the 1960s ～ 1970s from the point of view of the writer Kim Seung does not disappear. Furthermore, this work was introduced to the public in 1968, when the debate of popular society began in earnest in the Korean society. And it was published in the first issue of the 『Sunday Seoul』, which attracted the attention of the public. Considering these things, this work would be read more interestingly. When I read it in the social context of the time, <60s style> does not only reflect and represent the reality of the that time but also caught how the Korean society will change in the face of sudden changes in the dictatorship system and mass society in the Park Chung Hee regime symptomatically. In particular, this work shows how a capitalist desire that has come to Korean society at the time of entering the early stage of industrial society cast a new humanoid form. In this article, I looked at the era of the 1960s and 1970s by identifying them as the “masses” who pursue their desires in a subjective way, and as the predecessors of “Homo Economick”, which manages and manages itself as capital. On the other hand, the theme of the desire for capital and the conflict it causes is consistently found in the works of Kim Seung-ok. In the 60s, it not only emerges in front but also transform in a different way. In the conflict between the pure and reality of the dichotomical world is not working, and overcoming the throung the economy of guilt - consciousness is also not prevailing, but rather the way of life that responds plainly to the real world is affirmed. It seems that a two-day trip in Seoul brought a new awareness to Do-in, and also to the writer Kim Seung-ok.