퇴계-두향 연애서사 비판

Abstract

Toegye Yi Hwang was appointed as Danyang-gun County Governor in Chungcheong-do on January 24, 1548, and ruled Danyang-gun for nine months until he moved to Punggi-gun County in Gyeongsang-do on October 21 of that year. However, the narrative that Toegye fell in love with Danyang gisaeng Doohyang while serving as Danyang governor has been circulating for a long time. Since Jeong Bi-Seok introduced Toegye and Doohyang’s love story to the Myeonggiyeoljeon in 1974, Jeong Soon-Mok, Yoo Hong-Joon, and Choe In-Ho have virtually quoted the story as it is without going through a critical review. The Doohyang Festival, which has been held every year in Danyang-gun since 1987, and the storytelling park, which was built on Janghoenaru Hill in 2017 based on the Toegye-Doohyang narrative, can be said to have a strong characteristic of a local cultural festival leaning on Toegye’s reputation. As a result, the Toegye-Doohyang narrative has been confirmed as a historical fact. However, from the analysis of various related materials, Toegye-Doohyang narrative cannot be historical facts, so it is not appropriate for the narrative to be circulated in the name of literary imagination or novel description. Toegye and Doohyang’s love story was a thoughtless and irresponsible narrative, even in light of the life of Toegye or the identity of Toegyehak. It can be said that this is a fundamentally different problem from the fact that the character of the main character in the novel is reinterpreted according to social conditions and the spirit of the times.