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It had taken exactly 10 years from the novel ‘The far away river Song- ba’to ‘The shadow of arms’. It has been published some novels that used the Vietnam war as its subject but it is true that most of the novels could not reflect thorough historical awareness and true spirit of novelist. This limitation is still maintained today. It is hard to deny that Korean novelists were being lukewarm about the Vietnam war which is one of the most important historical issues in modern history even if we had some invisible form of pressure or we were more concerned about our problem than other country’s matter. As we know, Korea was one of offenders in the Vietnam war and Vietnam has similar historical pain as Korea so we had to more concerned about it anyway. In addition, to reproduce our experience inVietnam during the Vietnam war as source of Korean novel literature, we need to understand Vietnamese unique history. Korean novels ‘Human’s dawn’and ‘The shadow of arms’are written in understanding of Vietnamese unique history. These two novels which have 10 years interval, established similar characters in ruined Vietnam and well described ideological and ethnical conflicts of these characters. As a result, these novels well reflected writers’ constructive awareness more than any other Korean novels. However, Human’s dawn’has a limitation in fact. It estimated its value as anticommunism literature because it described the reasons of the Vietnam war only focused on Vietnamese ethnical conflicts and skepticism of communist. This limitation wascaused by writer’s coweredattitude to the outside world. In contrast, ‘The shadow of arms’illustrated Vietnam war’s background in not only ideological conflicts but also outside world’s pressure especially focused on meaning of outside world to Vietnamese. Moreover, The writer of ‘The shadow of arms’was concerned about Vietnamese’self - existence and their ethnical awareness in a position of ethnical literature. There is no doubt to say that how to melt the Vietnam war in our literature is still one of the most significant tasks to us and to evaluate and examine a result of novels untiltoday is also very important subject to us as well.