在北 아동문학가 康承翰의 생애와 동시 세계

Abstract

Characteristics of the Children’s Poetry World ofKang, Seung-han, a North Korean Writer of Juvenile Storiesand the inflection after the divisionJang, Jeong-heeThis paper is focused on Kang Seung-han as one of the writers ofjuvenile stories in the 1930s that we should remember in the writing ofreunification in relation to the history of children’s reading while alsolooking at the life and the poetry world of his. Kang, Seung-han is a ‘North-Korean’ writer of juvenile stories. Hewas born in 1918 in Shincheon-gun, Hwanghae-do, and activelyworked starting with the “Children’s Life” in 1993 and wrote on“Children’s Life”, “Children’s Friend”, “Child”, “Daily News” and“Donga Daily”. Kang, Seung-han is the representative writer ofchildren’s songs in the 1930s that had newly developed the modernpoetry of Korea using original techniques by overcoming sensiblechildren’s songs following the first generation of Lee Won-su, YoonSeok-joong, and Seo Deok-chul from the 1920s. Kang Seung-han, whoworked in the same era as: Kang So-cheon, Park Young-jong, Lee Gujo,Mok Il-shin, Lim Won-ho and Yoon Bok-jin, had gone throughsome sensible and creative period in his early years of working, but inthe mid-1930’s he left many works that succeeded in the projection ofthe poetic concept with intuitive descriptions and witty expressions. The works of Kang Seung-han that I have studies until present (July2013) are about 140 works written 11 years before the independence(1932~1943) and the five years after the independence (1946~1950). Definitely, the genre where the most works lie is the children’s songsand poetry. He left masterpieces including: “Saw it”, “Dragonfly”,“Boring Day”, “Lullaby in a Mountain House”, “Senseless Dog” and“Big Sis, One Pair of Beoseon”. However, the children’s poetry worldof Kang Seung-han that composed a unique world by combining thenature and the innocent children’s world showed distorted conditions inhis work as he actively supported the establishment of the NorthKorean Government after the dark period of sufferings during theJapanese invasion. After independence, Kang Seung-han lived in North Korea and wrotehis first long epic “Hannasan” that treated 4.3 of Jeju Island. It isrecorded that Kang Seung-han ended his life at a tragic young age of 33 years old on October 17th,1950 during the Korean War.