This study examines patterns in the generation and transmission of stories
based on the story of partisan Park Mak?dong who acted in the Yeonggwang
area during the Korean War. The Korean War disrupted many people’s
everydayness. This incident became a source of people’s various experiences.
In the process, some persons were captured in people’s experiences and
became stories, and some of such stories went beyond a simple daily discourse
and acquired literary figuration. Partisan Park Mak?dong, who acted in the
Yeonggwang area during the Korean War, remained in many local residents’
memory and acquired legendary figuration exceeding the level of daily
discourse. Given the local residents’ common experience of the Korean War,
Park Mak?dong showed an image distinguished from that of many others who
worked as policemen representing state power or as leftists. While the groups
who held power during the Korean War used the power in order to vent their
private emotions, Park Mak?dong showed a different character. Even he tried
to protect local residents from the violence of state power. As this feature of
Park Mak?dong was captured by local residents, primary and secondary
experiences were formed. Then, the experiences were aggrandized, and
combined with the narrative grammar of legends specific characteristics were reproduced in an expanded form. In particular, Park Mak?dong’s story partly
shows the structure of hero tales such as the Baby Warrior legend, Kim Deokryeong’s
tale, and Shin Dol?seok’s story. Through this, how a daily discourse
is transformed into a literary narrative was examined in this study. Nevertheless,
the process of the expanded reproduction of Park Mak?dong’s story was blocked
by peculiar ideological factors of the area including the disappearance of storytelling
stages and the development of mass media. Moreover, it was pointed
out that the future would not be favorable for the transmission of Park Makdong’s
story because of its ideological limitation.