구운몽 을사본 판본 연구 = A Study on the Eulsabon of Kuunmong

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Today, academia regards that Kuunmong was first written in Classical Chinese, and among these Chinese versions, the so called ‘Nozon copy’ seems to be the closest to the original version. Also, it is a widely accepted scholarly theory that Kim Man-jung created this story during Seoncheon’s exile around 1688. However, this general opinion is a clear disregard for the fact that the women of the high class family in Seoul read Kuunmong in the 1680s. This was mentioned in Lee Jae’s Samgwangi, and therefore the current understanding of academia needs to be revised. According to the above-mentioned descriptions in Samgwangi, it can be said that Kuunmong was already being read as a Korean novel in the 1680s. In order to study the author and original text of Kuunmong, it is necessary to review previously known data. This thesis deals with the Eulsabon of Kuunmong as a part of such work. The Eulsabon is the earliest version among the extant copies of the Kuunmong, and was published in Naju in 1725. Currently, the first edition cannot be found, but several reprints remain. The last printing appears to be in the early 20th century, and about one-third of the entire block has been replaced. The Eulsabon is an example of a copy of the engravings of a government official being flowed into the private sector at the end of the Joseon Dynasty and used to print commercial publications.