Now that traditional storytelling field have disappeared, this paper notices
new storytelling stages which are creating spontaneously. The form of new
modern storytelling stages is divided into two types; a life-field type and contest
type. The life-field type uses a traditional method of storytelling such as
grandmother tells folktale softly to her grandchild. The contest type is the way
that storytellers participate in the storytelling contest and compete with others.
Of these contests, this paper aims the storytelling contest to be held regularly;
‘Nationwide storytelling contest for middle and high school students’ and Silleh
village’s storytelling festival ‘Storytelling contest for children’ and ‘National
storytelling contest’.
This paper analyzes the aspects and characteristics of implementing the
folktale in the contest type of storytelling stage from the viewpoint of inheriting
the traditional storytelling stage. This paper also finds oral-cultural significance
of the contest type of storytelling stage which is created constantly.
The contest type of storytelling stage reveals the storytelling aspects of
traditional folktale and its various mutated forms. The storytelling of traditional
folktale reveals the communication among the traditional storyteller and audiences, and positively shows the storyteller’s tendency to seek the freshness
of narrative from legends among the folktales. Otherwise, there are negative
aspects about storyteller’s artificial and technical expression method and his/her
one way tendency to lead the storytelling stage which the audiences was ruled
out. In the narrating folktales of various mutated forms, the storytellers succeed
to the role of teller, adaptor, composer, and creator as a traditional storyteller
through the narrating reconstructed folktales of adaptation, combination, and
creation type on the basis of the reinterpretation of folktales. The contest type
of storytelling stage has a oral-cultural significance about a succession of
traditional oral-culture, a vivid spot-friendly performance, a discovery, training
and exchange of skillful storytellers, and hunting new stories which have a
power of transmission.
The contest type of storytelling stage still requires to be improved. However,
it can develop meaningfully the independence as a host of the story as well
as convert the passive audience into the voluntary and active creator.