Psycho-geography is a branch of geography to study the influence which a natural geographic environment has on a human's feeling and action. It is able to make good ways for a formation of an active memory as well as a type of recollection to look int...
Psycho-geography is a branch of geography to study the influence which a natural geographic environment has on a human's feeling and action. It is able to make good ways for a formation of an active memory as well as a type of recollection to look into some spatial memory because conception of psycho-geography concentrates a keen interest in a spatial atmosphere. Therefore, it is connected to working to reconstruct a custom or a cultural history in those days to trace the psycho-geography to cast a reflection on works. We can know to imply a further abundant meaning for [the tea room] in a novel if we give attention to the above point. A spatial position to be implied for [the tea room] is a good rough sketch capable of explication to the human inner thoughts and conditions in those days beyond meaning as a mere teahouse from the beginning.
This treatise found out on meaning through the changeful aspects of a tea room to appear in the Korean novels. The tea rooms appears to function as the aspects changed every times in the novels. The tea rooms as an agitating position of cultural artists in the beginning and those at refuge-place in Pusan during a refuge life of the war served as a cultural tea-room realistically. Also, many artists reposed themselves there and they directly wrote a novel.
The tea rooms since 1960's have gradually showed the aspects transformed as a commercial space. In that place, the people spent teas and musics, and did their job. It is because the tea rooms have to meet the demands of the times with the changes of the times in accordance with a great boom in industry.
Now, it is not a romantic space that the tea rooms spout out a cultural aroma no more. But, it is difficult to find even a scene of such a tea room recently. The term of “a tea room” became a dead language without quite realizing it and it has been nearly difficult to find the term of “a tea room” in the novels since 1990's. Now, the tea rooms are not a fascinated space as novelists no more. For a while, the tea rooms which functioned as one of harmony with an exotic atmosphere as well as the symbol of modernization resulted in the objet disappeared from the Korean novels due to cause crushed with weight of times.