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Abstract

In this paper, various viewpoints were studied about Jeju which was an absolute lonely space in Joseon dynasty. First of all, Jeju Island was a place which gave the anxiety and sense of loss to the exiled people. As the banishment was a punishment itself, they withstood with the anxiety that they could be dead anytime and with the slightest hope for the amnesty. Additionally, the sense of loneliness could be identified to be connected with the sense of loss because the place of exile was a place where everything they had was dissipated. For the officials, Jeju Island was the only place where the Confucian culture was not in Joseon. Additionally it was a place which gave the sense of loneliness through the separation from their familiar spaces where they lived. However, the officials made efforts to actively change and to gradually confucianize Jeju Island because they had official powers. To mainland writers, Jeju Island was a space of love and hatred which they couldn’t leave even though they wanted to leave and that they couldn’t help missing even though they left. Maegye, Lee han Jin failed in the civil servant examination and returned to Jeju and wrote Yeongjusibgyeongsi, which was a poem he expressed his loneliness and sense of loss and sublimated through the nature of Jeju. Buhae Ahn Byeong Taek went to the mainland for study after prohibition order of leaving island was lifted but he continuously missed Jeju and visited. Sueun Kim Huidon showed the retirement in Jeju Island because of the limitation of the times which was Japanese colonial era. This could be considered as a different aspect of solitude from the viewpoints that the retirement was not chosen by him. Jeju Island was a place that the exiled people and officials first experienced and was a lonely place itself. Additionally, the culture of Jeju Island was treated with discriminative viewpoints because it was much different from that of mainland land. This is a basically emotional and situational separation, but it could be considered as another solitude which eventually misses their familiar spaces. On the other hand, writers in Jeju positively looked at the nature and culture which they used to have. However, Jeju was a space which tied them up and therefore, they had full of spaces to get out of the frames. This was a sense of loneliness which came from the spatial sense of alienation. This sense of loneliness tends to be connected even in the situation where the restrictions were lifted at the end of Joseon dynasty and writers could come and go with the technology development.