The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Jindalekkot(Azaleas) by Kim So-wol is intertextually related to folk songs including Yeongbyeon-ga, and to study how the meanings of Jindalekkot(Azaleas) and the folk song Yeongbyeon-ga change when obse...
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Jindalekkot(Azaleas) by Kim So-wol is intertextually related to folk songs including Yeongbyeon-ga, and to study how the meanings of Jindalekkot(Azaleas) and the folk song Yeongbyeon-ga change when observed through intertextuality of the two. The following are the results of this study. In chapter 2, a study was done to clarify how Kim So-wol defined ``folk songs`` when he used the subheading of ``folk-song poet`` for Jindalekkot(Azaleas). As the result, it is possible to see that songs which are classified as Jap-ga, folk songs, Sijo in present time would have been classified as ``folk songs`` to mean traditional songs in those times. In chapter 3, intertextuality between ``folk songs`` of those times and Jindalekkot(Azaleas) has been observed concentrating on ``Yeongbyeon- Yaksan``, ``Azaleas`` as lexical connectors. In folk songs, ``Azaleas of Yeongbyeon-Yaksan`` represents presence of contradictory images such as ``effeminacy and tenacity``, ``pride and sacrifice``. According to this, looking at Jindalekkot(Azaleas) focusing on third stanza, it can be interpreted as a poem of dramatic irony where the beloved becomes the cruel, and the ardent one becomes cold-hearted. In chapter 4, implied ironies in the folk song Yeongbyeon-ga were analyzed through the ironies in Jindalekkot(Azaleas). The result shows that the folk song Yeongbyeon-ga is a text with superimposed ironies such as ``greeting and parting``, ``parting and reunion``, ``beauty and ugliness``, ``irresistibility and hesitancy of desires``. The limitation of this study is that not all ``folk songs`` of those times which are intertexutally related to Jindalekkot(Azaleas) have been closely examined. And therefore, the discussion on Jindalekkot(Azaleas) or Yeongbyeon-ga presented in this paper cannot be recognized as absolute interpretations. However, this study is significant in two aspects. One is that the interpretations of the readers in those times who are familiar with ``folk songs`` can be conjectured. And the other is that Yeongbyeon-ga is a type of text which can be read by readers of present times as a poetry to pursue the meaning of existence.