러시아에서 한국문학 수용과 문학-문화교류

Reception of the Korean literature and literature-cultural interchange in Russia

The history of a translation Korean literature’s in Russia already 110 years. But Russia studying Korean literature has been continuously developing since 1945, in a humane direction, by academic necessity, but only a few of Russian study on Korean literature were introduced to our country. The number of study books on Korean literature which were published in Russia until Feb. 2003 is 43. They are a total of 563 volumes including 22 volumes of theses for a degree, 370 volumes of theses for study, 128 volumes of press-related articles, and I classified press-related articles by authors, genres, ages, publication time, etc. to systematize the present situation of Korean literature. Also, it was the 1950s that the press report on Koran literature was most published. In 1950s, a total of 104 articles were published, which accounts for 80 percent of the total articles. But press reports were thoroughly based on North Korea, Lee Gi Young or literary circles of North Korea being mostly introduced. Like this, it was due to consistent study activities of experts in Korean literature such as Lee В.Н., Niggichina М.И., Ttrazzebichi А.Ф, Iremenggo Л.Е., Ivanova В.И., Yelicef Д.Д., Zedanova Л.В. etc. that study on Korean literature systematically developed. Half century has already passed since Russian study on Korean literature developed systematically on academic grounds, but it is no more than 10 years that literature of South Korea began to attract public attention in Russia. Russian study on Korean literature before 1990 was thoroughly focused on classic literature and literature of North Korea, and study and introduction of the literature of South Korea has been conducted since collapse of the U.S.S.R. Though the literature of South Korea have been translated and introduced and study theses related to the literature of South Korea published from the beginning of the 1990s, but they are not being conducted widely and actively. However, the most important event of Korean literature field in the 1990s was for Korean Language and Culture Research Institute affiliated to Orient Academy Dept. of 상-뻬쩨르부르그대학 to begin to publish since 1996 a scientific journal for Korean named 『Korean and Cultural Center Bulletin (Вест ник Центра корейского языка и культуры). Like this, considering the fact that study on Korean literature including that of South Korea becomes influential in Russia, it is the time to try in earnest to raise the position and study level of Korean literature in Russia on the basis of the result of efforts existing Russian experts in Korea literature exerted.