Literature text of the 7th curricula makes efforts to reflect the tendency of globalization and understanding of the peculiarities and universal validities of Korean literature at the same time. One must investigate common points of similar types of texts including idiosyncracies caused by time and place, culture as well as globalization. However literature texts do not emphasize the importance of peculiarities rather than universal validities. Thus, this paper will demonstrate this matter in this paper. Literature text in high school mostly contains following two problems. First, it disregards the characteristics of Korean War and explicates the general circumstances of that war. Second, the external and internal damages of Korean War have been pushed out of its central issue and the general atmosphere of those works occupy its mode. In this context, literature text contributed to the understanding of post-war novel, but it was not satisfactory in its peculiarities of Korean post-war novel. The existing literature text makes an emphasis on the importance of background in Son Changsup's <On the Day of Raining>. That explanations of the background of rain and deserted house as aspects of hypochondria, uneasiness, and periodical negativity can be effective means to make out the universal validity of post-war novel, however, it is not so helpful to explain the uniqueness of Korean War. <On the Day of Raining> truthfully responds to this binary world. Dongok and Donguk are literary brother and sister comforting and helping each other. However this close relationship gradually collapses into mistrust by losing cooperating relationships. Lee Bumsun's <Accidental Firing> depicts circumstances of disintegrated family members. Jang Yonghak's <Book of John Poetry> induces describable objects as spatial confrontation and stylish contrast. Like this paper has demonstrated, to make better understand the universal validities and peculiarities of Korean literature, we must pay attention to the literary theory as well as peculiar circumstances.

Literature text of the 7th curricula makes efforts to reflect the tendency of globalization and understanding of the peculiarities and universal validities of Korean literature at the same time. One must investigate common points of similar types of texts including idiosyncracies caused by time and place, culture as well as globalization. However literature texts do not emphasize the importance of peculiarities rather than universal validities. Thus, this paper will demonstrate this matter in this paper. Literature text in high school mostly contains following two problems. First, it disregards the characteristics of Korean War and explicates the general circumstances of that war. Second, the external and internal damages of Korean War have been pushed out of its central issue and the general atmosphere of those works occupy its mode. In this context, literature text contributed to the understanding of post-war novel, but it was not satisfactory in its peculiarities of Korean post-war novel. The existing literature text makes an emphasis on the importance of background in Son Changsup's <On the Day of Raining>. That explanations of the background of rain and deserted house as aspects of hypochondria, uneasiness, and periodical negativity can be effective means to make out the universal validity of post-war novel, however, it is not so helpful to explain the uniqueness of Korean War. <On the Day of Raining> truthfully responds to this binary world. Dongok and Donguk are literary brother and sister comforting and helping each other. However this close relationship gradually collapses into mistrust by losing cooperating relationships. Lee Bumsun's <Accidental Firing> depicts circumstances of disintegrated family members. Jang Yonghak's <Book of John Poetry> induces describable objects as spatial confrontation and stylish contrast. Like this paper has demonstrated, to make better understand the universal validities and peculiarities of Korean literature, we must pay attention to the literary theory as well as peculiar circumstances.

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Universality, characteristic, postwar days novels, unitary world, dualistic world, opposition, dualistic world view.