남명의 생애와 발자취에 대한 연구의 회고와 전망

Abstract

Researches about Nammyung’s life and his footsteps have been changed enormously since Nammyung study Research Center was founded 20 years ago. As for his life, in the beginning there were researches only about informing his career, character and studying, however, now days researches have been carried out to highly specific fields. On previous days there were only few books alluded his words, but now plenty of the books that are totally about him were published. There are the books about his life concisely and specifically, and there are the books for elementary school students, adults and researchers, and there are the books in which his life was restructured interestingly. Compare to the researches about his life, the researches about his footsteps are fewer. In this thesis there are few researches about Duck-chen lecture hall and the few places Nammyung visited, but most of them are only introducing his footsteps briefly. Here, this thesis will introduce many of remains related to Nammyung like Duck-chen lecture hall, Shan-chen Jae, Nammyung’s graveyard, Shan-Hae bower, Shin-Shan lecture hall, Gye-bu bower, Nue-ryong bower and so on. Nammyung Study Research Center printed a booklet introducing Nammyung’s life and his remains for publics. This booklet has been printed from the beginning, but it has a minor defect that contains too little information. After 2000, we published a few booklets introducing Nammyung’s remains which was written after researching Nammyung’s footsteps scattered in Gyungnam area, and these booklets not only help people understand his life and activities, but also deepen the comprehension about his poetry. These research reports and books are the proofs noticing how the research of Nammyung has advanced. Despite of these proofs I reckon we should release more books about Nammyung’s life. For example, we could film his life as a TV drama, since Korean dramas’ power has been getting bigger and bigger through Korean wave. Happening at Dan-sheng So and seclusion on Ji-ri mountain show that Nammyung was not a normal person that his life was a lot more dramatical than any other historical people. Few weeks ago Korean TV show, History Special, broadcasting his life is a supporting evidence. Moreover, to inform and study his life, we should have examined the materials about his life in advance, nevertheless there was no full-scale research of that. Fortunately, Nammyung Study Research Center recently published planty of books by arranging and translating his lifetime materials. The accurate translation and the elaborate correction of the materials can contribute remarkably to understand his life firmly. Yet, merely translating his lifetime materials would be not enough to understand his life properly. We found a few mistakes in old day’s materials so that we need to investigate these materials closely one by one. The reason we plan to hold serial seminars about these materials is because of this. I hope that his life could construct clearly without any controversy, and through this work I hope we could introduce the great life of Nammyung completely to young students, and also to grown-ups.