김일성의 청년상에 대한 (남)북한의 상징 투쟁과 체제 전유의 방식들 냉전에서 열전으로, 북한 사회의 집단/ 공유 기억의 창출과 역사의 기념비화

Abstract

This essay has perspective of ‘glocal studies’ including another time difference of Postwar to understand North Korea. Perspective of ‘glocal studies’ indicates the new academic trend which pays attention to dynamics of global and regional interaction. In terms of ‘glocal studies’, North Korea has been constructing the present regional realities in glowing of the Cold War and dynamic movements of interrelation with South Korea. From this point of view, this essay examines symbolic struggle and forms of system appropriation of South and North Korea about the youth image of Kim Il Sung in the Liberation Period. The youth image of Kim Il Sung has been closely connected with legitimacy of postcolonization and project of (re)nationalization. The reason why it came into question in South Korea was linked directly the concrete and visible offensive of South Korea. This forming of opposition and competition of South Korea and North Korea increased a closed circuit of self returned identity, North Korea reinforced safe arrival and solid foundation of a new system through ‘generalization / nationalization of enlightenment’ since the Liberation Period. ‘Generalization / nationalization of enlightenment’ has been complicated new positive code conversion of the youth image of Kim Il Sung and the rising of national landscape and autoethnographic narrative of collective ritual / commemoration. The ‘Selection Books History of Immortality’ (for short, ‘Selection Books’) as synthetic version showed that postcolonial struggle of South and North Korea and leader’s representation representing it was the center code of regional realities which penetrated through South and North Korea no less than global movement. To accept North Korea as neighborhood living with us, as this essay argues finally, we need a comparative perspective crossing reference to another postcolonized nations and glocal view about destructive contact between postcolonization and Cold War.