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The study discovered that Lee Chan’s poetry received a simple evaluation from literary persons from 1950 after independence of Korea from Japan to 1960s when was the period of restoration after Korean War in North Korea and its position in the history of literature was raised in the inside of North Korea after 1970 from the middle of 1960s. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to arrange its position and changes of the position in the side of the history of literature through the original copies of North Korean literature published in a book form and a periodical form and to follow up why his poetry was raised in North Korea.
The study closely examined his poetry embodying diverse aspects and symptoms by changing their form by each time as a KAPF writer, a pro-Japanese poet and an anti-Japanese revolutionary poet and discovered one world view through them-namely what the poet aimed. Consequently the study could see that his private utopian world view agreed to the political ideology of North Korea and his position in the history of literature was suddenly raised.
However, North Korea has duplicity with regard to evaluation on Lee Chan’s poetry. Especially, writers at that time such as Im Hwa and Han Sul-Ya were purged and disappered permanently in the history of literature or restored after being purged as time went on. Differing from them, by only one emerging, Lee Chan’s poetry was secured its position in the history of literature to the end. For, Lee Chan’s poetry was appreciated as a work with a room in which strong political message to be delivered by North Korea cut. Although we should examine matters related to the above more closely in the future, the study could see that it was a kind of emblem that the position in the history of literature secured by Lee Chan’s poetry in North Korea could be placed in a symbolic position which was a tradition of revoluationary literature, and Lee Chan’s poetry in North Korea was appreciated by putting a focus on a funcntion as a poet and poetry to mythify Kim, Il-Sung by the political leaders of North Korea. Therefore, the study checked that the political leaders of North Korea supported Lee Chan and his poetry in order to secure the highest position in the history of literature in North Korea.