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Korean the illustrated story books do not have a long history. In thelate 1960’s, foreign the illustrated story books were introduced to Koreawhile Korean the illustrated story books started to be published in thebeginning of 1980’s. In 2000, Korean the illustrated story books werepublished in wide range. Since then, the study of the Korean theillustrated story books have been eagerly required in children literarycircles. Accordingly, this thesis studies a Korean the illustrated story booknamed as “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”, which was a result of collaborationbetween a writer, Mr. Kwon Jeong-Saeng, and an illustrator Mr. JeongSeung-Gak. “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”was written as a child book in 1969 at first. Afterthat, Kwon and Jeong revised it and published as a the illustrated storybook in 1996. After that “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”became a steady sellerbeloved by Korean children. The republished “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”republished was not just improved in understanding and clarity of itscontent but recreated as a book which stimulated children’s imaginationthrough a changed style from children’s book to the illustrated story book by Jeong. It became a wonderful work resulted from interaction betweenwriting and picture. This thesis, firstly, deals with the recreation of“ Gang-A-Ji, Dong”onthe side of writing and picture. Secondly, it studies how the theme,background, character and plot of “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”was based on acertain emotion and ideologies from the various views of inmulseongdongi ron(人物性 同異論: The Debate over the Similarity or Differencesbetween the Morality of Humans and Animals), Taoism, andChristianity. Through the analysis of “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”we can figureout that the author’s viewpoint in literature is based on severalphilosophies such as inmulseong dongi ron, Taoism, Christianity and soon. “Gang-A-Ji, Dong”could become a steady seller because it wascreated based on the writer’s life, emotion and religion. Through thisstudy, we look forward to publishing many Korean the illustrated storybooks which help children achieve their dreams.