Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
the 19th Central and Eastern European Society of Koreanology (CEESOK) Conference, Kayseri, Türkiye, 4 - 05 Temmuz 2020
Some folktales mention “A house or village full of wicked people was
punished and became a lake.” It is a form of the widespread Legends that have a
power of transmission on a global scale. These legends, which have the
following narrative structure : Arrival of the Judge - Identification of Evil -
Salvation to the Prophet and Presentation of Taboo - Violation of Taboo –
Destruction, show the fate of universal human, which are difficult to escape
from the marginal world symbolized by ‘evil’, as an image of ‘those who have
stopped on the floor’. This implies that the archetypal consciousness of
universal humanity about the human being’s necessity to move towards a life of
higher value and the cognitive risks to be inevitable in the process. This is
why these stories can have a global power of transmission.
As the legend has this structure, Korean legend “Jangjamot” and Turkish legend “The
Village becoming a lake” are passed down. Both of them clearly show the
formal typologies in terms of the narrative, the symbol, and the in-depth
meaning. Therefore, it is a concrete sample to confirm the archetypical
cognitive of the two people with pursuing universal values and possessing
strong psycho-cultural similarities. But the more interesting parts are the
differences between the two. Both forms of legends show very similar narrative
structures and figure images, but also have distinct differences in their
details. From these differences, it is expected to confirm the cultural
differentiations between Koreans and Turkish culture.