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In this paper studied Choi In-ho’s The Hometown of Stars based on viewpoint that literature is composed within the contemporary social context. Looking at The Terrifying Many(1972) as a metafiction, Choi In-ho pursued ‘pure novel writing’ as an antithetical to ideological literature. The postideological literary sense allows Choi In-ho to have literary freedom to write various types of writings. It is understandable that Choi In-ho was able to write a popular newspaper novel in a serious age. The Hometown of Stars(1972) was a novel that filled with public anxieties while ignoring social problems in the era when Park Chung-hee began to wrestle to the public. This feature is noteworthy in terms of aesthetic politics, in that the contemporary public were able to move away from oppressive social order and to live an independent life. In the early 1970s, the landscape of Korean society is scene that became a ‘literary boy and girl’, reading The Hometown of Stars and enjoying ordinary life. Therefore, it can be said that The Hometown of the Stars of the 1970s existed as a political text in which literature intervened politically as literature itself and distribute the sensible.