1960년대 독서 환경과 청소년 독자

Abstract

This paper is to investigate the environment surrounding the reading for youth in the 1960s and to know its effect on students’ reading. The 1960s is authentic modernization of the Korea Society. Delayed restoration of state institution due to war and division of Korea is more actively developed. As a means to achieve development and modernization, reading is emphasized. So it is no exception to the youth reading. Social movement has been captured to promote favorable reading society on the public literature and general education. On chapters 2 and 3, we investigate teenagers in the 1960s to study the reading aspect. At first, the youth facing social and cultural environment and the publication at that time are examined. Reading is selected as a tool for information delivery method to the modernization. Those reading books are consist of complete works primarily with a focus on information and literature. Reading to young people is a little bit in force and the kind of reading books is mostly classical and liberal. Also frequent readers focused on literature began to accept foreign literature. Specially, some of youth readers started to read the German Romantic books from the United States and Japan. This Germany liberal novel was soon growing genre novels for teenagers. And it was cultured to form a novel notion. Including the classical and liberal ideology-driven reading, the reading of pure and non-historical, non-ideological, literature was also formed. It is assumed that the notion, “Literature is a post-ideological” control some of consciousness and ideology of the youth. In conclusion, the 1960s is to be found in the time for the growth of the roots as the modern youth literature. Also, the 1960s is beginning time for youth reading problem in our society.