• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.72
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• pp.205-239
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• 2022

Park Yong-gil's personal letter 'To You' collection is a valuable historical document that contains aspects of modern and contemporary Korea, managed by the Late Spring Moon Ik-Hwan Memorial Foundation. These letters were written for about 10 years and 3 months, and there are currently about 2,304 letters left, and support is needed to secure social feasibility for long-term preservation of historical materials and to establish a stable record management system. The purpose of this article is to introduce Park Yong-gil's letter, which has not been introduced in earnest, to the archival community, and to comprehensively review the whole story and examine the tasks. To this end, the meaning of the letter in Park Yong-gil's personal life was examined, and the value of this letter was particularly highlighted in terms of being a letter written as a part of Okbaraji. And by investigating and analyzing the status of the archives, the internal and external characteristics of the letter were comprehensively analyzed. The characteristics of Park Yong-gil's letter identified as a result of the study are that it is a letter sent to one person, and it is accumulated with a considerable amount and aggregation. In particular, it is expected to have a diverse user base in that it is easy to empathize with because it contains the familiar subject matter of letters and the stories of contemporaries, and contains a variety of informational values about contemporary events and people. Based on these historical and cultural values and various useful values of the letter 'To you', various research and development of services should be made in the future.

• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• v.79
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• pp.219-242
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to examine the implementation process of peace and unification education operated by the Moon Ik Hwan's House of Unification and what future tasks will be. The House of Unification, established after Moon Ik Hwan's death, contains important materials from modern and contemporary Korean history. This place conducts peace and unification education according to Moon Ik Hwan's theory of unification, and approached it as an action research to clarify the direction and tasks of peace and unification education. The researcher confirmed the direction of improvement of the program through two classes, and explored the research results by executing a second program reflecting this. The results of the study are as follows. We should look at Moon Ik Hwan, who reflects his appearance as a Christian figure and his thoughts as a unification activist. In addition, rather than approaching the issue of unification through macroscopic discourse, we should look at it as a problem of daily life. It should be a peace and unification education that allows you to meet comfortably through various teaching and learning methods.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.82
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• pp.47-86
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• 2024

The role of the archive providing the service is crucial for making records more widely known and utilized. The personal letters exchanged between Moon Ik-hwan and Park Yong-gil are unique personal records that fill the gaps left by public records during the politically tumultuous period of the early 1980s in Korea. This paper aims to shed light on the context of record management by comprehensively analyzing these letters in terms of their interrelationships. To achieve this, the study analyzes the context of 694 letters exchanged between the two during Moon Ik-hwan's imprisonment in the third prison following the Kim Dae-jung Conspiracy Case. The research methodology involved reviewing literature and records to summarize the historical context and personal backgrounds, and a comparative analysis was conducted to reveal the interrelationships and meanings within the texts of the letters. The findings of this study can be summarized into three key points. First, the paper outlines the shared context of the letters by summarizing the political and social circumstances of the time, particularly focusing on the Kim Dae-jung Conspiracy Case, and the characteristics of individual relationships. Second, it distinguishes the direct methods of letter exchange, categorizing them into routine and atypical methods, and identifies the relationships between the letters, the flow of dialogue within them, and their distinctive features. Third, it explores the interrelations and meanings between the contents of the letters. Through this analysis, it was confirmed that the two sets of letters, as a unified and expansive text, display characteristics of integration, competition, and expansion in their content. This analysis emphasizes the importance of understanding the context of letters in record management and demonstrates the need for archives to provide rich contextual information when offering access to letters.