This study examines that the pathology of Kim Seung-Ok's novel. He is the modern capitalist society in the 1960s as the pathological appearance was a novel. In his novels because of the sudden acceleration of the modern era of confusion about the different value systems occur. And determine their own lives and behavior standards establish the value of it without a pattern or confusing to the advent of personal. These individuals and their inherent psychological structure resulting from the contradictory ambivalence will have. In a rapidly changing society, individuals will experience a sense of ambivalence and anxiety. Resulting pathological individuals appear throughout Kim Seung-Ok's novels and his novels can be understood as encompassing features.
Kim Seung-Ok's novels are often people suffering from mental pathology appeared. People with more psychological characteristics of the modern literature is also. Here are these people suffering psychopathology in the cause of the rapidly changing modern society believe. 1960 with the historical situation and its implications for patterns of pathology were examined. He tries to make the diagnosis about pathological state of society in the 1960s through pathological individuals to recognize the reality on the negative. And ventilation of these diseases as well as through the community supervision and a better world, show a desire for a healthy society.