This thesis discussed the ways of making ‘the April-three Incident in Jeju’ into epic dramas in Uncle Suni by Ki-young Hyun and The Death of A Crow by Suk-bum Kim, and analyzed the relationship between the socialistic and historical situation of the writers with the epics. On the basis of the analysis, the thesis tried to define the significance and limitations of dealing ‘the April-three Incident in Jeju’ in literature. 'The April-three Incident in Jeju' has long been considered as one of the taboos writers dared not try to deal with in their works. In this sense Uncle Suni by Ki-young Hyun has its meaning in overcoming the taboo and becoming the detonator of making the incident the subject of arts and literature. Uncle Suni revolted the mainstream of defining ‘The April-three Incident in Jeju’ as a riot, but defined it as a disaster and an accident and tried to express regrets to the victims. But the discourses that define the April-three Incident as a disaster or an accident tend to overlook the aspects of protest and resistance of the incident. The Death of A Crow by Suk-bum Kim was in a way the first novel that dealt with the incident. Suk-bum Kim was a Korean living in Japan and he could make use of the socialistic and political advantage of a Korean- Japanese and could emphasize the aspect of protest in his novel. The novel has great meaning in dealing with a group of revolutionary intellectuals in the field of arts. Still we are waiting for more works that deal with the incident in different views. The views in Uncle Suni and The Death of A Crow were rather narrow, but they opened the door of greater works covering the April-three Incident in the aspects of people’s protest.

This thesis discussed the ways of making ‘the April-three Incident in Jeju’ into epic dramas in Uncle Suni by Ki-young Hyun and The Death of A Crow by Suk-bum Kim, and analyzed the relationship between the socialistic and historical situation of the writers with the epics. On the basis of the analysis, the thesis tried to define the significance and limitations of dealing ‘the April-three Incident in Jeju’ in literature. 'The April-three Incident in Jeju' has long been considered as one of the taboos writers dared not try to deal with in their works. In this sense Uncle Suni by Ki-young Hyun has its meaning in overcoming the taboo and becoming the detonator of making the incident the subject of arts and literature. Uncle Suni revolted the mainstream of defining ‘The April-three Incident in Jeju’ as a riot, but defined it as a disaster and an accident and tried to express regrets to the victims. But the discourses that define the April-three Incident as a disaster or an accident tend to overlook the aspects of protest and resistance of the incident. The Death of A Crow by Suk-bum Kim was in a way the first novel that dealt with the incident. Suk-bum Kim was a Korean living in Japan and he could make use of the socialistic and political advantage of a Korean- Japanese and could emphasize the aspect of protest in his novel. The novel has great meaning in dealing with a group of revolutionary intellectuals in the field of arts. Still we are waiting for more works that deal with the incident in different views. The views in Uncle Suni and The Death of A Crow were rather narrow, but they opened the door of greater works covering the April-three Incident in the aspects of people’s protest.

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Remembrance, the discourse of disaster, the discourse of protest, the consciousness of boundary man, the consciousness of border man