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Aspects and Literary Significance of Visitors to the Transcendent World in 『GeumoSinhwa』 and 『GijaeGiui』

Korean Language and Literature July 30, 2026 Hyun-hwa Kim

『GeumoSinhwa』 and 『GijaeGiui』 are works that intensively feature the figures of visitors to the transcendent world from the era of tales. These visitors challenge the ontology of immortality not through variations of the ‘body,’ but through the experiment of ‘'crossing boundaries with the physical body itself.’ The aspects of visitors to the transcendent world in classical novels manifest as...