송산 김명식의 생애와 문학

Abstract

Kim Myeong-sik (1891-1943) who hailed from Jeju Island was a organized activist and socialist activist. He also attained reputation as a journalist and a writer. His activities as a socialist and anti-Japanese movement activist had been prominent between the mid 1910s and the mid 1920s. He was a key member of Joseon Students Friendship Association, and played an active part in the New Asian Alliance Party, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the Corea Communist Party. He also led an active life as an editorial writer of the Dong-A Daily and the New Life. However, in 1923, a New Life Publish Company event put him in jail. After that, his health deteriorated and stopped doing organised activities. He took part in social activities by concentrating only on writing. He published, through many media, a variety of writings on socialism ideology, international situations, international and domestic economy, the history of Joseon, social conditions, education, female, the Book of Changes, religion, art and literature. Although he showed a sign of a converted socialist by publishing several writings cooperating with Japan during the Sino-Japanese war, he stopped short of internalizing the discourse of Japanophilism Kim Myeong-sik's literary works include Early Spring and Rain is a Song (1920) published as congratulatory poems for the first publication of the Dong-A Daily, a condolence poem (1922), a kind of Yeonsijo, for the death of Son Byung-hee, critiques such as Russia's Living Literature (1922) and War and Literature (1938) and an essay A Praise for Sullungtang (1922). Of these literary works, Early Spring shows resistance against capital and Japan and the condolence poem shows the aspect of Sijo literature in the early 1920s. Russia's Living Literature draws attention in that it called upon the activation of proletarian literature even before KAPF was organized. Kim Myeong-sik left his footprints in the history of Jeju literature in that he had led a variety of activities during the period of Japanese control, which is rare for writers from Jeju Island.