동요작가 목일신의 문학적 생애

Abstract

This study explains literary historical position of children's song writer Mok Ilshin by tracing and organizing his literary career. He was aware of social reality early because his father, Mok Hongseok, participated in anti-Japanese Movement during the Japanese colonial period and he died from the aftereffects of torture. It was thanks to his father who taught him writing in Korean that he wrote children's songs. It is also his father's influence that he expelled from Jeonju Shinheung School for making and distributing leaflets. That's why his children's songs have strong ethic commonness. His literary career may be summarized as follows. First, Mok Ilshin was put in Jeonju prison on the charge of participating in Gwangju Student Movement at Jeonju Shinheung School in 1930. He was dismissed from school on this account. After this, he went back to his hometown, Goheung and drowned himself only in writing children's songs. In 1930, He wrote as many as 64 children's songs. It proves that he tried to stand up against Japan and give the hope for the future to children by writing children's songs. Second, Mok Il-shin considered child as an independent individual and wrote children's songs as a 'becoming-children'. He mostly contributed to <Donga-Ilbo> or <Chosun-Ilbo> which are the national presses and kept the national spirit by stopping his writing while Japan shifted to a wartime mobilization posture. These were a part of 'Becoming-children' after all. On the other hand, lots of music was written for his children's songs. Most of popular composers of the time wrote the music for the children's song and the songs are still sung by many people. <Bicycle (jajeongeo)> is one of the examples. It has over one hundred different melodies. Third, Mok Il-shin wrote not only children's song but lyrics of new folk songs and popular songs. The lyric he wrote was used for record recording by famous singers. Above all things, he devoted his whole life to teach Korean as an educator and took a role of coach and director for the ping-pong table tennis team. As it is mentioned above, Mok Il-shin led the movement against Japan and is the writer who left a significant mark. This year is the century of his birth. Now it is the time to set his literary position in the history of children's literature.