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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.15 No.1 © 2015 Academy of East Asian Studies. 69-87 email of the author: jooyeon.rhee@gmail.com 69 Discovering the Nation through Translation Korean translation around the turn of the twentieth century can be described as a site of cultural rupture that broke out as a response to the newly organizing international order. The weakening of China and the quick and decisive penetration of new imperial forces into East Asia prompted progressive, reform-driven intellectuals to rethink ways to improve Korea’s geopolitical position and construct the nation as a unifying cultural community. As the opinion that adopting Western knowledge would strengthen the Korean economy and culture gained significant support within intellectual circles, the translation of foreign texts became an inevitable path for nationalist intellectuals to actualize their goal. Most public intellectuals at the time performed multiple roles as reporters, essayists, fiction writers, educators, and translators, all of which converged on their political visions for the nation. Their attitude towards fiction writing and translation was highly instrumental, as they regarded those activities as effective tools for educating the general populace on the importance of sustaining and developing cultural life to improve national wealth and health. Thus the selection of This essay explores cultural interactions between Korea and Japan by focusing on Korean translations of Japanese fiction in the early 1910s. It considers the translation of Japanese texts in colonial Korea as a contested field of culture where Japanese assimilationist ideologies were promoted and challenged. The translation of Japanese romance novels in the 1910s in the colonial newspaper, Maeil sinbo (The Daily News) is a striking example of the ideological function that imperial literature played in colonial Korea, demonstrating the uneven cultural exchange between the colony and the metropole. However, the ways native translators appropriated the original texts, while negotiating the colonial forces around them, deserve our attention for the embodiment of their political agency, reflecting native interests and cultural sentiments in the translations. I contextualize the cultural significance of the translation of romance novels and analyze a Korean translation of a Japanese novel, The Gold Demon, as a case study. In this work, the translator, Cho Chunghwan, negotiates colonial power through the notion of collective suffering and salvation, and by employing a Christian and patriarchal rhetoric of love.

The Politics of Romance in Colonial Korea: An Investigation of a Korean Translation of the Japanese Romance Novel, The Gold Demon