Community space reflected in park Taewon’s novel, “riverside landscape” on Seoul

Abstract

This study aims to analyze community space depicted in Park Tae-won’s fictional works set in Seoul of the 1930s, and thus to understand the common lives of citizens in those days. The analysis of community spaces used by a wide range of people in Seoul, in which modern culture was introduced, helps our understanding of the changed lifestyles and lives of people. The emergence of new types of community space with Western and Japanese influences could also be found. These spaces served as the background to a variety of changes, such as changes in roles and gender discrimination and hierarchical conflicts associated with economic characteristics at that time. To clarify the significance and necessity of the study, this study first examined the trends of previous studies in Korean literary works. Second, it analyzed the “Riverside Landscape” related to urban and architectural space. Lastly, it derived a differentiation by analyzing the community aspects and spaces. © Research India Publications.