玄卿駿의 작품을 통해 본 國境都市 圖們

Abstract

Tumen(圖們) is the border city of Gando(間島), facing Namyang(南陽) City of Onsung County, North Hamkyung Province, across the Tumen River. In 1932, Tumen began to develop with the construction of the Jing-Tu Line Railway(京圖線) Corporation, which connects the capital city of Manchuria and Japan. Since then, Tumen has developed into the back city of 'North Korea's Third Ports(Cheongjin, Ungki, Najin)' & 'Border Station'. Hyun Kyung-joon(玄卿駿) is a representative Korean-Chinese novelist who worked in the Japanese colonial period. In 1937, he moved to Manchuria to avoid the cultural assimilation policy of Japanese imperialism. Hyun Kyung-joon was attention to the life of Korean residents living in the border cities and the social problems of 'smuggling'. Hyun Kyung Jun defended the local Koreans who were forced to become smugglers through novels, and indirectly criticized the invasion of Japanese imperialism that led them to 'corruption'. In addition, Hyun Kyung-jun included the image of the Korean who migrated to North Manchuria through Tu-Men Station. He depicted the Korean people who were being thrown out at Mother land by Japanese imperialism through the border city Tu-men. Hyun Kyung - joon showed the resistance to the Japanese imperialism, and the meaning of the border city through various groups.