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Against the backdrop of a tension between pure literary theory(soonsu) and participatory literary theory(chamyeo), Baek Nak-cheong's criticism works which were evaluated as a major force of the literary criticism of ‘Changjak-gwa-Bipeong (Creation and Criticism)’ based on political participatory theory, have been reviewed by the internal value definition within literary discourse. However a new perspective is required to accurately comprehend his literary criticism, which overcomes the internal discussion of the literary discourse and understands his criticism in the relational context of the contemporary discourse as a whole in that era. His criticism works which evolved through citizen's literary theory, national literary theory, and the Third World literary theory, should be understood in a close connection with modernization theory and immanent development theory upon which the contemporary intellectuals intensely debated, a National Modernization Theory of Park Chung-hee regime as a dominant ideology, and democratization theory suitable for Korean society. The critical intervention of Baek Nak-cheong to the literary scene was mostly motivated by the socio-cultural discourse agenda rather than by the internal discussion point of the literary discourse. It is developed by a method which invites the ideological relation in reality into the interpretation of a literary work. Such method enables a formation of the critical relation against the oppressed reality, and simultaneously accepts and shares the agenda of the system. Such partition of sensibility towards the concept of the contemporary discourse can be understood that his criticism established a symbiotic antagonism against the dominant discourse within the landscape of the entire discourse.