1950~60년대 어린이 인권 문제의 역설 -어린이 인권 담론과 현실 사이의 모순을 중심으로-

Abstract

Since liberation, children have been represented as ‘hope of the future’ in Korea Although the discourse on children’s human rights was raised before the Korean War, the human rights of children in the 1950s and 1960s were very serious in a negative way. An important factor that exacerbated the reality of children’s human rights was the three-year war. The war has put children in a state of great disaster and threatens their very survival. War orphans were also recognized as objects to be protected, but in a situation where they were driven as street vagrants, they were also regarded as ‘preliminary criminals’ who could threaten society. As various cases of human rights violations in children’s living spaces such as homes and schools were reported in the media, children’s literature writers began to enact the “Korean Children’s Charter,” and the government accepted it. The enactment of the ‘Children’s Charter’ was an event that showed the growing social interest in children’s human rights and reflected the seriousness of the children’s human rights problem. Children’s human rights issues after industrialization in the 1960s were changing into a docile yet self-governing way of studying for entrance exams in the love of a mother.