— Overview
The notes stay with those two works and that comparison, and they stop before a later recap.
— Contents and key concepts
Two stories, published decades apart
The notes set two works side by side: Yi Tae-jun’s Meeting Mother, published in the 1930s in the children’s magazine Eorini, and Hwang Sun-won’s The Calf, published in the 1960s in the adult journal Sasanggye.
A child, they write, is a being still growing; children’s literature should develop so that children can take things in for themselves, rather than be fitted only to the views of the generation already in place. The notes propose to compare the two works in their period and their themes.
What they take children’s literature to be
Children’s literature, they write, is literary work written with the consciousness that a child will read it. Even so, they say, the genre itself is still little granted a field of its own, and remains in a blind spot of research. Works placed in elementary textbooks, they add, are sometimes revised from a particular point of view.
Where the notes stop
The notes leave the two stories there, before a later recap. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student comparison of Yi Tae-jun’s Meeting Mother and Hwang Sun-won’s The Calf.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
What two works do the notes compare?
Yi Tae-jun’s Meeting Mother, published in the 1930s in the children’s magazine Eorini, and Hwang Sun-won’s The Calf, published in the 1960s in the adult journal Sasanggye.
Why, as they tell it, set the two side by side?
To compare their periods and their themes, and to ask what children’s literature is. Children’s literature, they write, is work written with a child reader in mind; yet the genre itself, they say, is still little recognised as a field of its own, and sits in a blind spot of research.
Where do they stop?
After that comparison is set up, and after a note that pieces in elementary textbooks are sometimes revised from a particular point of view. They leave a later recap unused.
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