A Study on the Aspects of Folklore in Korean Fantastic Children's Story

판타지동화의 구전설화 수용 양상 연구

The optimistic vision of folktale and its aesthetic consciousness, elegance and humor, are brought out differently but clearly in Korean fantastic children's storys which draws folktale into its own works. Like as, the tragic truth and tragic beauty are appeared in children's storys which use lesends for its own storymaking, and the transcendental value and sublime beauty are presented in children's storys which draws myth into its own storymaking. Because of their immaturity, it is not easy for children to become familiar with tragic truth and tragic beauty of legend or transcendental value and sublime beauty of myth. That is the reason why the transfomation of legends and myths into children's storys have not been done as frequently as folk tales. But such difficulties can be overcome by concrete characterization as in the case of 'Oseam'. Those difficulties also can be removed by creation of double heroes as in the case of ' The Country of Roije' some writers of fantastic children's story bring out fantastic motifs of folklores into their own works to make extend time and space. The other writers put more sophisticated themes in their works by weaving and editing a few folklores. This paper is written under the strong belief that it is very important to accept and transform folklores into fantastic children's storys for the progress of modern Korean children's literature. But more works are needed as examples to verify this paper's point. that remains as a future task.