임선규 국민연극의 문제성 -「빙화」와 「새벽길」을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper examines national theater of Lim Sun-kyu focused on Ice flower(빙화), An early morning departure(새벽길) which were discovered and introduced recently. These works were obvious national theater which aimed to raise hostility against Soviet Union and United States, the enemies of Japan, as background of the Sino-Japanese War(1937) and the Pacific War(1941). But the national theater of Lim Sun-kyu, typical popular playwriter in colonial era, were different from other national theater showing uniform propaganda in same age. First, the main actors of these works, Park Young-chul and Song Young-chul were skeptical intellectuals who were wandering and collapsed in Manchu, Soviet and America, boundaries to new world. And Ice flower(빙화) set up Russian Revolution as important ideological prior history dealing with Sino-Japanese War in 1937. An early morning departure(새벽길) contrasted the Pacific War(1941) with the principle of self-determination of peoples of U.S. President Wilson from Paris Peace Conference(1919). By means of these works, Lim Sun-kyu showed his historical and international perception throughout Russian Revolution(1917), Paris Peace Conference(1919), 3ㆍ1 Movement(1919), the Sino-Japanese War(1937) and the Pacific War(1941). Lastly, it could be known that he made effort to understand problems of Korea in the stream of historical and international situation. The interesting point was that these historical turning points were also political concerns of Dong-hak which were watching carefully international and local situations to get a chance of liberation movement. According to these works, the relation of Lim Sun-kyu to Dong-hak and Lim’s aspect of nationalist were should be noticed newly.