고창녕 전설의 구성과 기층 공동체의 정치 윤리

Composition of Ko-Changnyeong Legend and Political Ethics of Folklore Community

The purpose of this study is to examine how Ko Yu (高裕), a real person in the late Joseon period, became a Ko-Changnyeong that was composed of colloquial language stories, and to find out the meaning. Ko Yu came to Changnyeong for an official post of Hyeongam and communicated intimately with the folklore community, distinguishing himself from other officials. The folklore community symbolized the behavior of Ko Yu s singularity by composing a colloquial language story. Ko Yu was a symbol of signifying the appearance of a positive local governor. At some point, Hwa-jung began to focus on the image of his positive local governor rather than the real person Ko Yu. Hwa-jung changed Ko Yu to Ko-Changnyeong and added symbolic meaning to Gi-pyo Ko-Changnyeong by adding various stories. When local governor Ko-Changnyeong treated people, he performed ‘asking-seeing-hearing’. The folklore began to organize the life of the community into stories through the ‘asking-seeing-hearing’ of local governor Ko-Changnyeong. Ko-Changnyeong, as a local governor, connected the life of individualized folklore with the life of a community, through which he constituted the political ethics of the folklore community. However, the symbol of local governor Ko-Changnyeong originally had certain limitations. The folklore could not overcome the limitations of local governor Ko-Changnyeong. Nevertheless, the Ko-Changnyeong legend shows that folklore stories can be words rather than sounds, and even more likely to be political subjects.