Representation of Placeness and Subject of Korean Students in the United States in Colonial Age

This article explored stories of students studying in America under adversity, which was written in the colonial period. These stories are the documentaries on the students leaving from hometown to move to a strange, foreign area and experiencing other cultures and people where they meet there. Through examining these, this article explored the relationship between their experiences of American culture and the formation of the intellects' subjectivity in the modern period in Korea, for students studying in America. This issue is interpreted from the standpoint on the ���living world as dailiness���, or living space for each individual and the relationships of ���experiences��� between subjects and the area, not the semantic network, America as a country, culture, and Western modernization. This views American society from ���insides��� eyes,' and shows the feature of perceiving and reprentating the world as a field of survival game, not as a sense of security in a phenomenological place study. Their representation of place shows the loss of placeness, created by the capitalistic modernization; nevertheless, it shows different aspects from place representation of Western modernization, that is, ontological security of human and self-identity are involved in ���placeness���. This shows the point of crack, created in the inside��outside boundary, daily experiences of place in the outside world, each going through among colony people. This non-placeness, shown among students studying in America in the colonial period, an example of showing not only general dimension, human isolation from the place created by capitalistic modernization, but also another dimension created by the modernization; thus, a problematic point of crack, revealing dimention of the subject and the place, created by colonialization