@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002075,
 author = {金, 一根 and KIM, Il-Geun},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {7},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {pdf, A broad overview of the world's literature in the eighteenth cetury reveals that satire had become the object of serious literary endeavor in England, Qing China, Yi dynasty Korea, and Japan. Famous writers whose work helped to establish this trend include Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) in England (cf., e. g., Gulliver's Travels, 1726), Wu Qing-zi 呉敬梓(1701-54) in China (e. g. Rulinwaishi 儒林外史, ca. 1735), Pak Chi-wôn 朴枇源(1737-81) in Korea (e.g. Yangbanchôn 両班伝, ca. 1757), and Hiraga Gennai 平賀源内(1728-80) in Japan (e.g. Fūryūshidōkenden 風流志道軒伝, 1764).
What is more, it is a matter of considerable interest and significance that these writers all came to the fore during the middle part of the eighteenth century.
Putting Swift, the lone Westerner, aside, we assume that insofar as there is no real evidence of mutual influence at work in the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese examples just cited, the reasons for their common satirical bent must lie with the authors themselves and similarities in the environments in which they lived and wrote.
In looking back on this period, there are admittedly difficulties in positing out-and-out evidence of change in the actual structures of political and economic institutions. However, if we view the times through the idealizing world created in works of literature, it is clear that in all three of these Asian countries, the modern character was already quite visibly present in the eighteenth century: resistance to the weight of tradition, precipitated by the decay of the feudal system, a capitalist economy of mercantilism, the new influence wielded by the common people, and the first signs of a national consciousness are all manifested in the literature.
Friction between these modernist (i.e., anti-feudal) tendencies and the established order which sought to repress them gave rise to a cultural and social ferment that nurtured the satirical element in literature. It seems safe to view such conditions as historical prerequisites to the rise of satire; their prevalence at the time explains why satire should be a literary product peculiar to the eighteenth century.
I should therefore like to inquire into both the general and distinctive qualities of satirical literature in eighteenth century Korea and Japan, by first cutting the picture down to Pak Chi-wôn and Hiraga Gennai, in order to compare and contrast their works and the environments in which they wrote. I then hope to take such similarities and contrasts as suggest themelves as a point of departure in considering topics of mutual interest for the future of comparative studies in Korean and Japanese literature.},
 pages = {88--101},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {公開講演会　十八世紀風刺文学の韓日対比考察　―朴趾源と平賀源内を中心に―},
 year = {1984},
 yomi = {キム, イルゲン}
}