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Focusing on the literature of 1980s' in Korea means to question the historical meaning of the collective memories about that times. There being some keen tensions between the truth and memories, facts and the fictitious, this should be the tasks of literary criticism. This essay investigates the works written for recent 20years by Bang, Hyun-Suk, who has been estimated as one of the most famous labor novelists of korean 1980s', through which it can be seen how the 1980s' resistant and combatant humanism, with a peculiar charactering way of individual human pathos, can adjust or renew itself to the needs of 1990s' new generation. Humanism, as a kind of liberated anthropology, is a way of envisioning the optimum conditions for human being and the desirable social relationship within individuals. As Bang, Hyun-Suk was a chief author who explored in his works the 1980s' resistant movement guided by combatant humanism, he could be a good testimony for the last 20years' vigorous efforts of korean literature concerning on new visions of another humanism. Major works are as follows, House of Opening the Future up(『내일을 여는 집』, 1991), During Ten Years(『십년간』, 1995), Time of Eating Lobster(『랍스터를 먹는 시간』, 2003).