한국민속에 나타난 죽음 : 이몽학과 김덕령 전승을 중심으로 = Death Found in Korea Folklore

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The deaths found in the Korean folklore are mutually different in form but to Koreans the death seems to represent a change of the earthly life into a new place of life, reather than an end of the worldly life. That is to say, if a man dies, flesh will disappear into dust but the soul will not die away and be born into a new life.
About the forms of death in Korea folklore, this paper tries to closely examine deaths focusing on the tragic death of Lee Mong-hak and Kim Dok-ryong who were loyal soldiers.
Lee Mong-hak who rose in revolt in puyo and its vicinity Hongsan against his enemy worked out a plan to ccupy areas of Hongsong but it turned out to be a failure. In his defeated war, Lee Mong-hak was killed by his subordinates, however.
As for Kim Dok-ryong, he who went to war while in mourning initially advanced into as far as Chinju area but last failed to win the war. The defeat stirred up an intriguing against him from his opposing party and then this caused him to involve himself in the Lee Mong-hak Revolt, where he was killed. Noticeably the oral literature brings to light whatever conscience the men of legend-transmission(or country scholars in olden days)had about the tragic death of such loyal soldiers. Further accounts of it may be given as follows :
First, men of legend-transmission most probably didn't want to see deaths like that, because they thought that such patriotic soldiers were the men to be able to deliver them from the actual trials.
Second, those folk experts present a new sense of their deaths by making the narrative story of death more like a tragic one. In other words, their death, caused by sujects much weaker than they, exposes the absurdity and hypocracy of the then society.
Third, the folk transmitters would not accept their tragic deaths. Instead, they turned down the tragic deaths of the two soldiers, based on the Paguteolegend of Lee Mong-hak and a thorough loyalist Kim Dok-ryong : they only displayed here the probability of their resurrection, through which the loyal soldiers might secure a solution to such actual trials as mentioned above.
The deaths of Lee Mong-hak and Kim Dok-ryoung found in the legends is not the end of human life but a new birth toward another self-realization In conclusion, the legend -transmitters sought to find a new effective way in the legend to adjust themselves well to actual trials of life in an absurd and unequal society.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.머리말
• Ⅱ.이몽학 전승에 나타난 죽음
• Ⅲ.김덕령 전승에 나타난 죽음
• Ⅳ.마무리