전래동화를 활용한 미얀마인 대상 한국문화 교육

Abstract

This study aims to help Korean culture education for Myanmar people through fairy tales. Korean culture education is essential for fluency of Korean language and adaptation to Korean society and culture to foreign students and workers. In the study, eight fairy tales consisting of four Korean fairy tales and four Myanmar fairy tales are selected as research materials. Through the analysis of Korean and Myanmar fairy tales, cultural elements and identities were identified and compared with the materials from the both countries. The analysis has been processed in the respect of character and contents of the materials. The fairy tales were analyzed by one-to-one correspondence, such as myanmar `Devotion(성의)` vs. `An Old Man Planting Dreams(꿈을 심는 노인)`and then they were sorted according to cultural and identificational elements. Even though two countries have a few cultural and historical interchanges and are far away from each other, the traditional fairy tales between Myanmar and Korea showed high similarities in the view of cultural elements, values, and identities. In the fairy tales there are many common aspects and similarities in cultures such as tendency of regarding agricultural society as important, the hierarchy according to ages, the filial duty, family relationship, and the community solidarity. I believe those similarities in Myanmar and Korean cultures could be a desirable norm for Myanmarese to study Korean language and to adjust to Korean society.