Gaebyuk, the general magazine in the 1920`s, shows the characteristics as follows: it had close relation with Chundogyo in its subjects, practical lines and funds: and it was the product of zeitgeist of 1920`s. This study traced the success, influenci...
Gaebyuk, the general magazine in the 1920`s, shows the characteristics as follows: it had close relation with Chundogyo in its subjects, practical lines and funds: and it was the product of zeitgeist of 1920`s. This study traced the success, influencing power, and social position of Gaebyuk through examining its publishing situation. As increasing in number of the readers, its price and the number of pages went up, and its commercial advertisement pages increased strikingly. Clearly, Gaebyuk scored a great commercial and popular success. The stability of the circulating network made possible such a success. Gaebyuk had difficulties for its religious image, but the organization of Chundogyo solved the problem of circulation. The circulating system of Gaebyuk which transfigured over and over again from `main office-distributor` system to `main office-branch office-agency` system along with enforcement of `Saooje`(the system of colleagueship) was possible only with the devoted efforts of Chundogyo. However, Gaebyuk won the sympathy of many people beyond their own religious faith. Gaebyuk brought out numerous works of literature and new writers, and it filled a blank of history of literature by devoting a good deal of space to writers, thus it created a large currency of `Sin-gyunghyang-pa`(the group of new tendency literature), raised its position in Korean literary history.