This paper aims to examine the interrelationship between colonial cultural strategy of the Japanese Government General of Korea and the case of reality of new-style novels focused on Lee Haejo. For this, we were to understand one aspect of the colonia...
This paper aims to examine the interrelationship between colonial cultural strategy of the Japanese Government General of Korea and the case of reality of new-style novels focused on Lee Haejo. For this, we were to understand one aspect of the colonial cultural strategy through the directory of 『Mailsinbo』, Tokutomi Soho and the auditor, Nakamura Kentaro. Tokutomi Soho pursued literature of awakening the world which coincided with a direction proposed by 「Chosun Tongchi Yoeui」, and it is thought that as Nakamura Kentaro held real power of operating and editing who had inspected Korean newspapers even before Korea-Japan Annexation, he realized what had been designed before. Works of Lee Haejo who kept publishing novels serially in 『Mailsinbo』 right from the Korea-Japan Annexation are differentiated from works in 1900s in that they pursued sentimentalism and revivalism. The sentimentalism which urged Koreans to repent and reflect on themselves is combined with revivalism by proposing passive Confucian ethics as a way of salvation. Lee Haejo`s adaption of Korean old novels can be understood in the same context as revivalism of Ecriture pursued by 『Mailsinbo』 and 『Sinmungye』 etc. Popularity of the new novels was based on this sentimentalism and revivalism, and in particular, the colonial nature of sentimentalism is continued also in adapted novels of 『Mailsinbo』.