A Study on the Literature Education of the Foreign Students Using the Cultural Contents: Centering around Song Ki-sook’s “Uturi － The Alive, Follow Me 1”

This study uses Song Ki-sook’s “Uturi － The Alive, Follow Me 1” as a text and thereby, reviews the ways to use diverse cultural contents in the classroom. ‘Uturi’ is the literary work that portrays the actual progression of May 18 Democratic Movement vividly to help the learners to understand the truth and significance of the democratic uprising, while showing how the characters change, and thereby, look back upon themselves and others, responding emotionally to the uprising. What should be handled in the classroom regarding this work may well be the temporal and spatial background of the work, the main character ‘Hyeondo’, the significance of the being or ‘Uturi’, the borrowing of the legend ‘Uturi’ emerging as an epic strategy to deliver the theme, etc. These discussions may also evolve interestingly and in-depth in reference to such diverse cultural contents as cartoon ‘Uturi’, movie ‘Taxi Driver’, folk tale ‘Baby General Uturi’, ‘Memorable May’ and diverse cultural festivals. Cultural contents serve as a bridge connecting learners with the literary works and plays a key role in stimulating learners’ interests and sense of subjectivity, and therefore, they may well be more important in the literature education for the foreign students. In other words, they may need to be positively used in the Korean literature education, considering that they allow for an active literary learning and help to create an arena of dialogue facilitating dynamic questions and responses.