A Study on the living and the experience from Captive's story of war during the Second Manchu's invasion in 1636

병자호란기 조선 피로인(被虜人)의 호지(胡地)체험과 삶

This study is intended to review the war and the living of the common people of Choseon dynasty, through the true stories of captives kidnapped in the region of the Qing(胡地) during the Pyeongja horan in the 17th century. The common people, Kim seung kyung and Ahn chu won, who had been kidnapped in their young age, managed to escape from the region of the Qing to Choseon after having experienced a painful living as a captive for 27 years. Kim seung kyung and Ahn chu won had to make a choice to run away from the Qing in order to bring their war distorted life back to its original state. Kim seung kyung who had successfully escaped, could live without severe difficulties by the aid of his family living at his hometown, but Ahn chu won who had not found his own family or relatives, couldn't have got any helping hand from the people mentally or financially. So, he tried to escape again to Beijing, but discovered and captured so that a diplomatic problem was caused between the Choseon and the Qing Dynasty. Through the true story of Kim seung kyung and Ahn chu won, we can see the lives of Choseon common people who were trying to overcome the difficulties with their own iron will without being undaunted by hardships. Even though the captives had terrible experiences hating to remember, their experiences gave a chance to the Choseon people opening their eyes to the foreign cultures and the new world. At that time, the Choseon government was too weak to estimate how many captives were or what the captive's real fact was. Meanwhile the Choseon government managed to do the least duty in order to protect its people, by breaking the provisions of repatriation that the fled captives should be returned back to the Qing Dynasty. Through reviewing the captive's true story of the Choseon common people, we can ruminate the Choseon society in the 17th century which failed to establish an independent national history, and the issue of the Korean War captives in the modern history forgotten under the shade of the dustbin of history.

본 연구에서는 17세기 병자호란시 호지(胡地)에 피로되었던 조선 백성의 피로담을 통해 전쟁과 백성의 삶에 대해 살펴보고자 하였다. 평민 김승경과 안추원은 어린 나이에 몽고 북경으로 포로로 끌려가 27년간 포로생활을 하다가 조선으로 탈출해 왔다. 김승경과 안추원은 전쟁으로 인해 뒤틀린 자신의 삶을 되돌려 놓기 위해 도망을 선택하였다. 탈출에 성공한 김승경은 고향에 가족들이 생존해 있어 별 어려움 없이 생활할 수 있었지만, 안추원은 가족의 생사조차 파악할 길이 없었고 그에게 정신적 경제적 지원을 해줄 곳은 어디에도 없었다. 그는 다시 북경으로 탈출을 시도하다 발각되어 청과의 외교문제를 일으키게 되었다. 김승경 안추원의 이야기는 역경에 굴하지 않고 자신의 삶을 강한 의지로 극복하려고 했던 조선 백성들의 삶을 보여준다. 피로체험은 피로인 당사자들에게는 기억하기 싫을 정도로 끔찍한 경험이었겠지만, 이들에 의해 전해진 이국 문화와 풍습은 당대인들에게 새로운 세계에 대해 눈 뜨게 하는 기회가 될 수 있었다. 당시 조선 조정은 피로인의 수나 실태조차 제대로 파악하지 못할 정도로 무기력한 상태에 있었다. 그러나 도망포로를 청으로 돌려보내야하는 송환규정을 어기고 자국민 보호를 위해 아주 최소한의 의무를 다하고 있었다. 조선 백성의 피로체험담을 통해 자주적인 역사를 펼쳐나가지 못한 17세기 조선사회와, 망각의 그늘 속에 가려져 있는 현대사의 전쟁포로 문제 등에 대해 반추할 수 있을 것이다.