朴順東의 항일투쟁과 美 전략첩보국(OSS)의 한반도침투작전 = The Anti-Japanese Struggle of Pak Soondong and the O.S.S. Project of penetration into Korea

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

There is a mysterious character in the two famous novels. One is Kim Bumwoo in Taebaek-Sanmack(Mountain Taebaek) written by Cho Jung-Rae, the other is Chang Harim in Yeomyungeui-Nundongja(Eyes in the Dawn) written by Kim Sung-Jong. Two novels are very well known and be a dispute point in 1990s. The heroes of two novels are described very similarly. They were student soldiers who desert from Japanese Army during the Pacific War, joined the Office of Strategic Service(O.S.S), the famous U.S. intelligence agency to serve as an agent who volunteerly penetrate into Korea and fight against Japanese. They have been trained very hardly as an special agent who oath their lives to death for the freedom of Korea. Everybody thought that the two heros are just the result of the imagination of authors. But they were not fictional characters. Soondong Pak is the real hero of two novels.
Personally he is a maternal uncle of Cho Jung-Rae and wrote nonfiction story of his experience that became the plot of above two novels. He was forced conscripted in January, 1944 as a student soldier. At that time Japanese Imperialist conscript Korean youngman who have education above college level. Pak Pak Soondong was dispositioned at Kume, the countryside of Burma. He escaped from Japanese army with his friend, Chongsil Rhee in April, 1945 to British Army. Shortly after their surrender, the third escapee Pak Hyungmu joined them. They became prisoners of war and transferred to India. During the interrogation, they expressed strong anti-Japanese feeling and attracted the attention of O.S.S. At that time, O.S.S. Washington branch prepared a special project, named NAPKO to penetrate into Korea for collecting information and establishing radio station. It was inevitable to recruit Korean patriots to fight against Japanese. There were three categories of Korean volunteers who joined O.S.S. NAPKO project. The first one was Koreans who lived in U.S. The second one was Korean paws who were hold at McCoy POW camp, Wisconsin. The third one was the student soldier escapees who were in India. Pak Soondong and his friends, fled to Washington D.C, and moved to the training camp at Santa-Catalina Island, California in May, 1945. They finished training and well be prepared to penetrate into Korea. But the Japanese surrendered suddenly, so their mission was canceled. After the victory of Allied Powers, the status of Pak Soondong and his friends returned to theirs former one, the paws. They were detained Hawaiian POW camp and returned to Korea in January, 1946. Soondong Pak entitled his experience as “the period scorn.” He did his best for the liberation of Korea and died in 1968 as a normal citizen. Nobody knows or remembers his fascinating and patriotic story.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 소설과 한국현대사의 만남
• 2. 잊혀진 이름 朴順東ㆍ李鍾實ㆍ朴享武
• 3. 한반도 침투작전 냅코프로젝트(Napko Project)
• 4. 모멸의 시대 그 이후
• 〈Abstract〉