Choi Jung-hee is being discussed not only as a writer who cooperated with Japan but also as a writer who highlighted the gender characteristics of women. It can be seen as a welcoming soldier in 1941, and a series of war cooperation works, including “The Night of February 15” and “Yagukcho,” were published shortly after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1942.
In addition to the existing discussions on pro-Japaneseism, such as the “Mother of the Army,” this paper focused on Choi Jeong-hee's pro-Japanese category by paying attention to the “Flower” announced in May 1942. “Flower” is a work that rarely reveals war discourse amid a series of state-of-the-art works published in 1942.
In this paper, we specifically examine the characteristics of “Flower” and the inner psychology of the artist in the text, which is distanced from the discourse of the current situation in a series of pro-Japanese works. Through this, we looked deeper into the transition of femininity and maternalism to Japanese imperialism and also looked at how “flower,” the central material of the work, functions in Choi Jeong-hee's overall line of works