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Juvenile Literature in Kyungnam-Busan Region during the Colonial Period(before 1945)

This writing is objective to make a list of Kyungnam-Busan’s regional literature based on the representative megazines for modern juvenile literature from 1920’s to 1930’s, that is, 『Children』(어린이), 『New Boy』(신소년), 『Starland』(별나라), and 『Boy's Life』(아이생활), and to find aspects of how juvenile literature was formed in Kyungnam-Busan region. To achieve the goals, it was focused on activity of the pleasuring classes or youth’s organization and the admission system for writers. 『Children』(어린이) showed a consistent growth of the existing writers such as Son Jin-tae(손진태), and Jeong In-sub(정인섭) as well as young contributors. Although there was not found any relation between them, it included how Seoz Deok-chool(서덕출), Lee Seong-hong(이성홍), Lee Joo- hong(이주홍), Shin Go-song(신고송), Lee Won-su(이원수), and Park Seok- jung(박석정) were grown up as the main writers of Kyungnam-Busan region’s juvenile literature by getting helped from the youth’s organization. 『Children』(어린이) might be the media for formation of Kyungnam-Busan region’s juvenile literature between 1920’s and 1930’s without a religious barrier from Catholicism. 『New Boy』(신소년) would be the media that utilized the abundant cultural resources in Kyungnam-Busan region. It started building up the local literature with positive support from local relationship since Lee Joo-hong(이주홍) took part in editing in 1929. In addition, active contributions and widely spread branch offices increased the relative importance of juvenile literature in Kyungnam-Busan region. 『New Boy』(신소년), across the country, played a crucial role in development of juvenile literature in this region. 『Starland』(별나라) is characterized by entering of the proletarian writers into the media and their activities. Started by Um Heung-sub(엄흥섭), those writers were Kim Byoung-ho(김병호), Son Poong-san(손풍산), Lee Goo- wol(이구월), and Yang Woo-jeong(양우정). It was noted that they had a tendency of exclusivism due to the local and ideological differences. There was not found the whole picture of any activity of youth’s organization. However, 『Starland』(별나라) contained traces of the systematic and active media’s struggling arised by the writers in Kyungnam-Busan region against the oppression and strain that proletarian juvenile literature might have underwent during that period. 『Boy's Life』(아이생활) had been consistently pressed for the longest time. However, it had less participation of the existing and young writers of juvenile literature. It was a Christian megazine backgrounded by Kyungkido and Pyunganndo, and had weak support by the local Christian group. Moreover, the entry into the media was highly obstructed. These facts resulted the exclusive development of the writers in the local Christian group. Therefore, 『Boy's Life』(아이생활) showed the declined activity in Kyungnam-Busan region juvenile literature due to the religious and territorial barriers. Each four media above contributed to the formation and development of juvenile literature in Kyungnam-Busan region. Overall, the generational connection among writers was rare, but young contributors constantly grew as the main writers of juvenile literature, experiencing solidarity inside and outside of the area. The entry barriers between each medium is distinctive, that is, 『Starland』(별나라) and 『Boy's Life』(아이생활) place at each end and 『New Boy』(신소년) and 『Children』(어린이) locate between them. In this shape, Kyungnam?Busan writers of juvenile literature supported modern literature from the bottom, started from Lee Yoon-jae(이윤재), Yang Bong-geun(양봉근), and then Kweon Hwan(권환), Tak Sang-soo(탁상수) to Kang Lo-hyang(강로향), Nam Dae-woo(남대우). While completing this writing, undiscovered literary works, initially presented works, and maiden works of critical local writers as well as studies of popular artists were found out, which were producti