After this treatise grasped the point that a character of the Baekhwa school was idealism, egoism, illuminism, and art for art’s sake, it investigated what appearances that these thoughts had reflected on the Korean modern literature to make Lee Kwa...
After this treatise grasped the point that a character of the Baekhwa school was idealism, egoism, illuminism, and art for art’s sake, it investigated what appearances that these thoughts had reflected on the Korean modern literature to make Lee Kwang-Soo and Kim Dong-In two pivot objects of study.
They, Lee Kwang-Soo and Kim Dong-In met with works and thoughts of the Baekhwa school writers to go to Japan about the time when they played an important role in the Japanese literary world. But they who had quite different characters and thoughts accepted the Baekhwa school through a different logical connection with each other.
When He, Lee Kwang-Soo had met with works, he formed an enlightenment consciousness of idealism, and Kim Dong-In egoism and art for art’s sake. The Baekhwa school is the representative writers in the Japanese idealism. They are an important writers from the viewpoint of on the comparative literature of Korea & Japan novel because the Baekhwa school had an effect on two writers who formed the basis of the Korean modern novel.
We find out that the Baekhwa school had an enormous effect on the Korean literature if we will consider a relative importance Lee Kwang-Soo and Kim Dong-In have come into possession of the history of Korean novel.