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The Joseon Dynasty suffered the damage of the fall of empire due to Imjin war, Japan provoked in 1592. The government of Joseon sent the head of warrior monks, Samyeong and ordered him to search the possibility of reinvasion. The Great monk, Samyeong got confirmed from Tokugawa Ieyasu that Japan had no intention to reinvade and made ​​peace promises with him. And he also achieved repatriating more than 3,000 prisoners who were taken to Japan during the war at this time. However, more than one hundred thousand people remained in captivity in Japan as a slave and a part of them were sold to Southeast Asia or other countries. In modern history, Japan colonized the Korean peninsula by force and made China, Taiwan, and several Asian countries,etc. as ​​tributary countries and massacred and pillaged tremendous human and material resources. But Japan has not been acknowledging that fact, even without any reflection itself. It has something to do with Japanese national convention which Imjin war is understood as the historical milestone, a conquest of Korea. This thesis is written for making Japan reflect on its wrong historical consciousness by accepting the issue of the Imjin war prisoners as a cultural content material at the age of globalization and also for the purpose of presenting a cultural image of East Asian unity on the assumption of Japanese reflection and awareness. Ganghang is a scholar of the Joseon period, taken captive to Japan for three years. He wrote five essays of hands on experience of captivity and later younger students collected them and made 『Ganyangrok』with official publication. Despite over one hundred thousand prisoners, there's not much information about how they were captured, how they lived and how they tried to escape. 『Ganyangrok』is the best record literature unmatched because it is the most obvious information with accurate depictions and delicate expressions. Dedicated to the king of his own country after investigation of Japan during the detention, 'a Letter to the highness from a hostile land', 'the Report, seen and heard in an enemy's land', written for the purpose of devoting to the king after returning, to the captives who had left in Japan before returning, 'a Manifesto to the captives', being presented to the king after returning, 'a Report dedicated to the king at Seungjeongwon-the royal secretariat, and 'Life history of the war', written by staying at home after returning, all these books are his five essays. This 『Ganyangrok』was aired on television soap operas, the main theme song is widely known as a singer, Joyongpil's song. Various values in 『Ganyangrok』 make aggressors such as Japan who don't introspect the history of aggression and usurpation reflect on their emotion in future. They can be also used as contents which raise the spirit of peaceful coexistence for the global era. Many characters such as Japanese people who interacted with Ganghang, including Fujiara Seika, who learned Confucianism from Ganghang and became a progenitor of Japanese Neo-Confucianism, and the captives who died or who were killed or who couldn' t escape and remained, etc. will create a wide spectrum for making 『Ganyangrok』become a cultural content.