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초록

This study reads Han Kang’s We Do Not Part as a practice of mourning that asks how the memory of April 3 endures in spaces that institutionalized commemoration cannot fully capture. To this end, it draws on Tim Ingold’s concept of “correspondence” and binyeom— an everyday act of prayer within Jeju shamanic practice. Furthermore, through a comparative reading with Im Heung-soon’s documentary Binyeom, it examines how the site of violence—now an ordinary space of daily life—and Jeju’s surrounding natural environment function not merely as a backdrop for memory but as a field of implication in which relations between the living and the dead are continually reconfigured. In the novel, Jeong-sim’s search for remains figures a “suspension of mourning” that cannot be sealed by public recognition; this suspension is carried forward by In-seon and Gyeong-ha, unfolding into a process in which voices and bodies, memory and place, become mutually implicated. In this context, the cycles of snow, wind, and water appear as a medium through which past suffering operates within present sensation. The study argues that, through this process of correspondence, the novel’s “will to save” is shaped as an ethics of care—an attunement that willingly responds to the call of the other. Ultimately, We Do Not Part repositions the memory of April 3 not as a fossilized past but as something continually generated and flowing within the texture of present life, keeping open the modes of mourning and the possibilities of love that do not “part.”

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