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๐Ÿ“˜ ๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ 'ํ‘์‚ฐ(้ป‘ๅฑฑ)'๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading *Heuksan (Black Mountain)* by Kim Hoon

๐Ÿ“˜ ๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ 'ํ‘์‚ฐ(้ป‘ๅฑฑ)'๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  - Reading *Heuksan (Black Mountain)* by Kim Hoon

(ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด)๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ โ€˜ํ‘์‚ฐ(้ป‘ๅฑฑ)โ€™๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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๐Ÿ“– ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€Žํ‘์‚ฐใ€
โœ๏ธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€: ๊น€ํ›ˆ
๐ŸŽฏ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ์กฐ์„  ํ›„๊ธฐ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ์ข…๊ต ๋ฐ•ํ•ด์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„, ๋ฌต์งํ•œ ๊ฐ๋™์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ•™์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ถ„
๐ŸŒŸ ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: โ€œ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊นŠ๊ฒŒ ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“œ๋Š” ์šธ๋ฆผ์˜ ์†Œ์„ค.โ€

๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ใ€Žํ‘์‚ฐใ€์€ ์กฐ์„  ํ›„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ํ˜ผ๋ž€๊ณผ ์ฒœ์ฃผ๊ต ๋ฐ•ํ•ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์†์—์„œ, ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ณ ํ†ต๊ณผ ์‹ ๋…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ๋ฏผ๋‚ฏ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹ดํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚ธ ์†Œ์„ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฝ๊ณ  ๋‚œ ํ›„ ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๊ต์ฐจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ทธ์ค‘ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿฏ ์กฐ์„  ํ›„๊ธฐ, ๊ถŒ๋ฌธ์„ธ์กฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐฑ์„ฑ์˜ ์‚ถ

  • ์ •์กฐ ๋ง, ์ˆœ์กฐ ์ดˆ. ์•ˆ๋™ ๊น€์”จ์™€ ๊ถŒ์”จ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ถŒ๋ฌธ์„ธ์กฑ์˜ ํž˜์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ,
    ๋ฐฑ์„ฑ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์€ ์ฐธํ˜นํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ณ ๋‹ฌํŒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์ƒˆ์‚ผ ๋А๊ผˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋งค๊ด€๋งค์ง์ด ์„ฑํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ , ํƒ๊ด€์˜ค๋ฆฌ๋“ค์˜ ํšกํฌ๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์กŒ๋˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€.
    ์ •์˜๋Š” ์—†๊ณ , ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์€ ๋ช‡๋ช‡์˜ ์†์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ ˆ.


โœ๏ธ ์ฒœ์ฃผ๊ต์˜ ์‚ฌ์ƒ, ์œ ํ•™ ํ•™์ž๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๋†€๋ผ์›€

  • โ€œ๋งŒ๋ฏผ์ด ํ‰๋“ฑํ•˜๋‹คโ€, โ€œ์ด์›ƒ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋ผ.โ€
    ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์ต์ˆ™ํ•œ ์ด ๋ง๋“ค์ด, ๋‹น์‹œ์—๋Š” ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํ˜๋ช…์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

  • ์‹ ๋ถ„ ์งˆ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๊ณง ์ฒด์ œ์˜€๋˜ ์กฐ์„  ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ฒœ์ฃผ๊ต๋Š” ๋งˆ์น˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ธ์ƒ์˜ ์–ธ์–ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ
    ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์—ฌ์กŒ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ข…๊ต์˜ ํ๋‹จ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ,
    ๊ทธ๋•Œ ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์ด์ƒ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ฒ ํ•™์ด์—ˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿฉธ ์‹ ์œ ๋ฐ•ํ•ด(1801)์˜ ์ž”ํ˜นํ•จ

  • ์‹ ์œ ๋ฐ•ํ•ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํƒ„์••์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ,
    ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กด์—„์„ ์ง“๋ฐŸ์€ ๊ณ ๋ฌธ๊ณผ ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • โ€œ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ‹€๋ฉด ๋ฌด๋ฆŽ์ด ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ , ๊ณค์žฅ์„ ์น˜๋ฉด ์—‰๋ฉ์ด์— ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ํ„ฐ์ง„๋‹คโ€๋Š”
    ํ‘œํ˜„์ด ์ฑ…์— ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ์žฅ๋ฉด๋“ค์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฟ์†์— ์˜ค๋ž˜๋„๋ก ๋‚จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ข…๊ต์˜ ์‹ ๋… ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์˜จ๋ชธ์ด ์ง“๋ฐŸํžˆ๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋”์ฐํ•œ ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด,
    ๋ฌต์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์Šด์„ ๋ˆŒ๋ €์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


โœ‰๏ธ ํ™ฉ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ฐฑ์„œ, ๋ฐฐ์‹ ์ธ๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋ง์ธ๊ฐ€?

  • ํ™ฉ์‚ฌ์˜์€ ์™ธ๊ตญ์— ์กฐ์„ ์˜ ๋ฐ•ํ•ด ์‹ค์ƒ์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ,
    ๋Œ€ํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™€ ์กฐ์„ ์„ ์‘์ง•ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ํŽธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์”๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์ „ํ†ต์  ๊ด€์ ์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช… โ€˜๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ๋ฐฐ์‹ ์žโ€™๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ฒจ์กŒ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด ์†Œ์„ค์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ, ๊ทธ์˜ ํ–‰๋™์ด โ€˜์ž์œ ์™€ ํ‰๋“ฑโ€™์„ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์ ˆ๋ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ชธ๋ถ€๋ฆผ์ด์—ˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์–‘๋ฐ˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ๊ณ ํ†ต๋ฐ›๋˜ ๋ฐฑ์„ฑ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๋„.
    ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?


โœ๏ธ ๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ฌธ์ฒด, ์—ฌ์ „ํ•œ ํž˜

  • ใ€Žํ•˜์–ผ๋นˆใ€์—์„œ๋„ ๋А๊ผˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊น€ํ›ˆ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ธ€์€ ์งง์€ ํ˜ธํก, ๊ฐ„๊ฒฐํ•œ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ด ํŠน์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋ค๋คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์€,
    ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋‚จ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ“ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ

ใ€Žํ‘์‚ฐใ€์€ ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ข…๊ต ์†Œ์„ค์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์–ต์••, ๊ณ ํ†ต๊ณผ ์‹ ๋…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์˜์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด,
์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


(English) Reading Heuksan (Black Mountain) by Kim Hoon

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๐Ÿ“– Title: Heuksan (Black Mountain)
โœ๏ธ Author: Kim Hoon
๐ŸŽฏ Recommended for: Those interested in late Joseon dynasty history and religious persecution; readers seeking emotionally resonant literature
๐ŸŒŸ One-line review: โ€œA novel that seeps in slowly, yet leaves a deep resonance.โ€

Kim Hoonโ€™s Heuksan is a novel that calmly captures human suffering, conviction, and the naked face of power against the historical backdrop of late Joseon politics and the Catholic persecution. Many thoughts crossed my mind after reading. Here are just a few.


๐Ÿฏ Life under Aristocratic Power in Late Joseon

  • At the end of King Jeongjoโ€™s reign and the beginning of King Sunjoโ€™s, the power of influential families like the Andong Kim and Gwon clans began to dominate.
    It reminded me of how wretched and painful the lives of commoners must have been.

  • Bribery for official posts was rampant, and corrupt officials ruled unchecked.
    Justice was absent, and power was concentrated in the hands of a few.


โœ๏ธ Catholic Ideals โ€” Revolutionary from a Confucian Perspective

  • โ€œAll people are equal,โ€ โ€œLove thy neighbor.โ€
    These now-familiar phrases must have sounded revolutionary at the time.

  • In a society where class hierarchy defined the system, Catholicism must have felt like the language of a new world.

  • From a modern point of view, we can see the potential dangers of religion,
    but back then, such philosophy must have seemed idealistic and beautiful.


๐Ÿฉธ The Cruelty of the 1801 Catholic Persecution (Shinyu Persecution)

  • The persecution was not mere oppression,
    but a record of torture and violence that trampled on human dignity.

  • โ€œTwisting the leg would cause the kneecap to pop out, and beatings would make blood burst from the buttocks.โ€
    Such descriptions in the novel stay vividly in my mind.

  • The pain of being brutalized for oneโ€™s religious beliefs
    left a heavy impression on my heart.


โœ‰๏ธ Hwang Sayoungโ€™s Letter โ€” Betrayal or Hope?

  • Hwang Sayoung wrote a letter asking foreign powers to bring cannons and punish Joseon for its persecution.

  • From a traditional viewpoint, he would surely have been labeled a traitor.
    But after reading this novel, I began to wonder if his act was a desperate cry for freedom and equality.

  • Perhaps he sincerely wanted to change a society that only served the aristocracy.
    Could we not see him as someone who fought for the suffering people?


โœ๏ธ Kim Hoonโ€™s Writing Style โ€” Still Powerful

  • As in Harbin, Kim Hoonโ€™s prose in Heuksan is characterized by short breaths and concise sentences.

  • His calm handling of complex emotions and philosophies
    actually delivers deeper impact and reflection.


๐Ÿ“ In Conclusion

Heuksan is not merely a novel about religion.
It contains stories of power and oppression, pain and belief, and the will to change.

Through the lives of those who lived in that era,
we are prompted to reflect again on the world we live in today.


This post is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the author.