고전소설과 문화콘텐츠

Korean Classic Novel and Cultural Contents

  Korean classic novels were widely read among people and provided good source of story for writers in the early 20th century. But in a multi-media environment of these days, Korean classic novels are usually read and sold for children or students for their entrance examination. However that does not mean that there is no place for Korean classic novels in today"s environment where digital technology is being applied in various cultural areas and culture is kind of commodity. Humanistic imagination is still needed in cultural industries and Korean classic novels with peculiar characteristic of Korean culture are considered to have potential power in the world market which came to be closely related to our lives under the influence of globalization.   However it seems to be hard to expect that producers of cultural contents read Korean classic novels and remake them into new, original cultural contents because there are huge gaps between today and the past. This study tried to approach this kind of problem with the view point of scholars of Korean classic novels. This study suggested that what scholars of Korean classic novels can do with regard to cultural contents is translating Korean classic novels into modern Korean language, building data base of them, interpreting them based on deep study, and searching for new method for applying characters of Korean classic novels for cultural contents.