부산지역 도시전설의 전승양상과 성격 - 부산진구의 노년층 이야기를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper focuses on the legends passed down by the elders based on cities of the Busan area and the developing traditons as well as its personality. The urban legends of the Busan area has developed based on the societal context of the time when Busan became a refuge for the Korean war but at the same time an economically developing area in the nation’s grand scheme. One of the prominent urban legend of the Busan area is the “Jikimi” which means the guard, keeps tue to our traditional folk belief the “Jikimi.” These stories began to develop around the time when due to a development boom, Busan started to develop their city such as apartment constructions and road developments. In the process the traditional sense of community started to crumble. The subject of the legends include houses, mountains, public graveyards, public wells, pond and other varieties of areas which shows the prevailing nature of the “Jikimi” belief. The next prominent part of the legend is the integration of the dragon myths and it is in the school myths that one can find its existence. However the form of the legend is unstable and the dragon‘s nature as the water god who can give rain to the people, has been deformed into a “Imoogi” or a snake that could not turn into a dragon, which shows the fragmented status of the belief. The city legends of the Busan area meticulously express the historical background of the city and the real contemporary lives of the people living in the city. Due to the fact that the Busan area was a refuge for the Korean war, there was a great rift between the supply and demand for the residential areas, due to this the Yangtaek(a house - an east asian belief of energy in the soil) had become invaded by the Eumtaek(a grave - another east asian belief concerning energies of the soil. It has a counter active nature with the Yangtaek). Thus the development of towns over the public graveyards, created legends about the tales of the everlasting vengeful spirits which stemmed from their fear and regrets about the desecration of the Eumtaek. Such urban legends are the overlapping aspect between the agricultural and the rapid industrial societal beliefs. Therefore the solution to the, clash between the ethical beliefs of the traditional ways and the realities of the contemporary, is also found in the traditional ways. As a result the urban legends passed on from the generation of story tellers, are in sharp contrast to the urban legends of today’s younger generations.