| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 韓國語文研究所 === 91 === To Korea, the year 1950 is a historic noticeable year. Korean War was the most significant event of that age. Undoubtedly, the event has become the most important subject of literature after the war. Fallowed by the first restoration of Seoul, the world of literature also made a rise. One of the groups combines traditional beauty of words and spirit of humanitarian. The representative of that group is Ha, Keun Chan.
During Ha, Keun Chan’s childhood, he lived under Japanese regency. When he was a teenager, he experienced the cruelty of Korean War. For these reasons, his works always cover the agonies of killing and unstable lives. To compare with contemporary writers, Ha’s works are a little bit different from them. Most of the writers at that age write about the recession of society after the war. However, Ha not only wrote about that condition, he also tries to depict how “hopes” help people get through difficult situation. He shows his readers the aspiration of ”survival” and “resuscitation” via characters from different levels.
He has published more than seventy novellas and nine novels. The essay is going to make a research on Ha’s first novella “Father and Son, 1957”. The second chapter “Post-war Novels and the Tendency of Ha’s works”, is going to discuss some of Ha’s major works. The third chapter makes a comparison between Ha and Taiwanese writer Huang Chung Ming. When the contact of culture is no longer a fair exchange and become a despotic installation, it would inevitably make a gap between national consciousness and cultural concept. The Japanese regency had just passed and the wave of Western culture is coming to give the country a shock. Both Korea and Taiwan had once lived under Japanese ruling. And both countries had faced the impact of Western culture. The similarity of the two writers is that they both are the representative of The Third World writers. They have a strong emotion toward their country. They directly face and discuss the split of “Spiritual hometown” and “Present hometown”. And they also question about the loss and weak recognition of their national culture.
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