THE IMAGE OF MODERN KOREAN WOMEN IN THE WRITINGS OF PAK WANSŎ
THE IMAGE OF MODERN KOREAN WOMEN IN THE WRITINGS OF PAK WANSŎ

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses the image of modern women in the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most notable professional female writers in South Korea, Pak Wansŏ (1931-2011). In the first part of this paper we will examine the shift from the traditional and obedient woman to the new Korean female model, according to Pak Wansŏ’s point of view in her autobiographical novel Who Ate Up All the Shinga?. Afterwards, in the second part we will try to understand a traumatized Korean woman, who was raped during the Korean War, by referring to Pak Wansŏ’s story Three Days in That Autumn.

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