The main concern of this study is to identify the correlation between Kim Dong-Ri and 『Adongmoonhak』and the discourse produced by 『Adongmoonhak』 and its nature.
To begin with, the characteristics of Kim Dong-Ri-centered 『Adongmoonhak』 can be summarized as follows.
First, 『Adongmoonhak』became the foundation of a major power from the actions of Kim Dong-Ri in the 1960s. The emergence of Kim Dong-Ri was closely related to aspects of the power struggle which was at a new turing point with the inauguration of the Korean Literary Men’s Association at that time.
Second, the media strategies that 『Adongmoonhak』had used to produce and monopolize discourses effectively were very similar to the methods that had been shown in the literary magazines written by Kim Dong-Ri.
Third, among pure literary discourses, Kim Dong-Ri played a leading role in defining the children’s literature criticism. He wrote a small amount of criticism compared to Choi Tae-Ho and Park Mok-Wol but the influence of his discourse was far beyond them.
However, it is too much that the pure children’s literary theory was presented by Kim Dong-Ri. While it is true that the idealism and the romanticism which were presented in the first issue of 『Adongmoonhak』were considered the specific essence of children’s literature, the idealism and the romanticism that he said are nothing but the concepts which were agreed on by the opposite of realism. It seems obvious that though Kang So-Cheon or Cho Ji-Hoon instead of Kim Dong-Ri would be in charge of presenting it, it would not be extrinsic to the point.
After all, the nature of dominant discourse can be summarized as Donsim ideology and didacticism. Of course, these notions were established through the exclusive-mindedness against realism. Didacticism considers children a target of enlightenment and Donsim ideology considers them noble and praises them. Although both were a contradictory notion, they were established as a concept that could be combined by designating the common other, realism. It is the same context as the heterogeneous discourse that meant “people = purity = anti-communism” could be established through the common other, the left. That is why they produced a almost identical discourse although they consisted of a variety of human composition such as adult’s book authors, children’s book authors and educational bureaucrats.
However, literary field is a complex place where basically adversarial and conflicting discourses engage in a heated competition. Because there was no exceptions to 『Adongmoonhak』, as pure literature strongly widens its area, resistance discourse also started to ignite with it. There were Lee Won-Soo and Lee Ju-Hong in the center, especially Lee Won-Soo has significantly contributed to the formation of the children’s book authors-centered literary discourse since he was in charge of children’s literary chairman in the Korea Literary Men´s Association.