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Abstract

Park Yeong-Jong published nearly 110 pieces of children’s poems during the Japanese colonial period, and nearly 30 pieces during the Liberation Period. He continued to write during the Korean Wars and left many pieces until the 1960s. However, there are errors regarding him, such as that his first poems were children’s poems, or the title of his works and when they were published, that continue to be passed down. This article aims to correct such errors by writing the correct chronology of Park Yeong-jong’s works. Park Yeong-Jong began his literary activities by publishing the poem “Moon Night” in 1931, when he was in the second grade of Gyeseong School. Until now, it has been spread that “Tong Ddakddak Tong Jjakjjak(통․딱딱․통․짝짝)” is his first children’s poem. However, his first children’s poems are “Drizzle(이슬비)” and “Gift(선물)”(not listed) which were published in May 1934. It has been known that he first started writing children’s poems as a poet, but this is also not true, as he regularly wrote children’s poems alongside non-children's poems from the Japanese colonial period until his final years. In this article, I corrected various errors pertaining to the beginning period of his literary activities, his first work, correct titles of his works, and the time when they were published. Park Yeong-jong’s children’s poems endeavored to create aesthetic images through sensuous language and sung children’s story-like fantasies. In this sense, he was different from many children’s literature writers who left many pieces relating to social reality during the Japanese colonial period and the liberation period. Such a tendency is sometimes criticized as being detached from the actual life of the child. Park Yeong-jong insisted on creating free-form children’s poems, instead of being confined to fixed syllabic meters. This appears to be influenced by the concept of “children’s free verse” by Kitahara Hakushu. In addition, many of his children’s poems break free from the usual world of children’s poems/songs in terms of theme and expression. Conversely, many of his non-children’s poems have aspects of children’s poems, too.