황구연 구연설화의 문화적 의미 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the cultural meaning and value of Hwang Gu-yeon’s orally narrated folk tales. The study on Hwang Gu-yeon and the folk tales he talked about began in the late 80’s, and over 200 orally narrated folk tales were published in the magazines such as <Arirang>, <Art World>, <Chinese Folk Tale>, etc. starting from 1938, and in 2007, [The Complete Works of Hwang Gu-yeon] was arranged and published by Kim Jae-gweon. Hwang Gu-yeon is the 22nd descendant of Minister Hwang Hui. He was born in Gyeonggi-do of Korea, and when he was a child, he studied Chinese classics very much. He had lived in Korea until 1937 and then emigrated to China during the Japanese colonial period, and died at the age of 79. Since he accomplished a wide range of achievements, such as spreading not only Korean folk tales but also Chinese folk tales, he was honored with “China’s three major kings of Story” by China’s Civilian Literary Institution and [The Complete Works of Hwang Gu-yeon] containing 947 stories was published by Kim Jae-gweon, etc. The folk tales of [The Complete Works of Hwang Gu-yeon] regarded as his achievements have been intangible cultural heritages formed through a long history, and valuable assets like a treasure house indicating the development aspect of Korean folk tales and the combination of Chinese and Korean folk tale cultures. Accordingly, the study, by considering the cultural meaning in Hwang Gu-yeon’s orally narrated folk tales, intends to explore the values as the original contents his orally narrated folk tales have, and discover the possibility of using them as the original forms of various cultural contents. Orally narrated folk tales have the elements to change excellent Korean traditional folk tales into the contents for showing Korean children their dream and fantasy world and delivering the national ideology for them to understand and love the knowledge of Korean history and Korean ancient cultures, and to develop various cultural products to boast of Korea and the characteristics of Korea. Especially, the study will identify its significance in that developing the original contents of Hwng Ghu-yeon’s orally narrated folk tales can raise availability in providing the resources for creation of Korean cultural archetypes as creative sources to develop various content products by using this.