한국동화 장르에 관한 연구 - 동아시아 각국과 다른 '동화' 개념의 연원

Abstract

A STUDY ON KOREAN FAIRY TALE GENRE; WON, JONG-CHAN Fairy tale, one of children's genres, has its unique style with its fantasy. On the other hand, children's novel, as a fiction containing reality, has no difference in style from novel. Fantasy of fairy tale is derived from children's psychological characteristics. Fairy tale and children's novel has developed responding to children readers in relatively younger age group and older age group respectively. By the way, in Korea 'realism fairy tale' creates perceptive difference with other East Asia countries in terms of the concept of fairy tale because it makes the classification between Fairy tale and children's novel vague. More appropriate understanding of fairy tale is required because main readers of children's literature in Korea are getting younger than past. What is important problem is not just changing the name of genre, but developing own best tradition to suit today. Korean 'realism fairy tale' is closed related with realism style of Korean children's literature which is different from that of Japan. Although children's literature today should solve unequal development among genres originated from crippled modern history, it can make contents and form accord with each other perfectly when confronting rapidly changing reality.