๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง„ ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์˜ ๊ฟˆ
(The Dream of Eugenics Finally Comes True)

2013 ํ•œ์–‘์ธ ์—์„ธ์ด ์ตœ์šฐ์ˆ˜์ƒ(1๋“ฑ)
(The First Prize at Hanyang Best Essay in 2013)
์ „์˜ˆ๋ชฉ(Ye-mok Jeon)

Abstract:
The essay title was “The Dream of Eugenics Finally Comes True.” I satirically describe how “eugenics” materialize in the present because those who are poor do not reproduce for socio-economic reasons. However, the case of the rich is the other way around, and finally the eugenics’ dream comes true.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€์‹ฌ๊ณผ ์ด๋ชฉ์ด ๊ทธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋˜‘๋˜‘ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์กด๊ฒฝํ•˜๋Š” ๋ช…๋ฌธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋‚˜์™”๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์˜์›…๋‹ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํšŒ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์•„์ฃผ ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ช‡ ์–ต ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ฅ ์„ ๋šซ๊ณ  ๋‚œ์ž์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋ช…๋ฌธ๋Œ€์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ํฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋•Œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๊ณผ ๋ณ„๋ฐ˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋‚˜ ๋ญ๋ผ๋‚˜. ์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋งŒ ์ž˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๋ถ€๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง‘์•ˆ์ด๋ฉด ์ง‘์•ˆ, ์šด๋™์ด๋ฉด ์šด๋™, ์™ธ๋ชจ๋ฉด ์™ธ๋ชจ, ์œ ๋จธ๋ฉด ์œ ๋จธ ๋ฌด์—‡ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๋„ ๋’ค์ฒ˜์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์˜†์—๋Š” ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ๋„˜์ณ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ์œ„์˜ ์–ด๋ฅธ, ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง์žฅ ์ƒ์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์นญ์ฐฌ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์‹ ์ž์œ ์ฃผ์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์ ์ž(้ฉ่€…). ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„. ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ง‘์„ธ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ํ•™์ž๊ธˆ ๋Œ€์ถœ์— ์น˜์–ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์—ฐ์• ๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ๋„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์œ ์ „์ž๋ฅผ ํ›„์„ธ์—๊ฒŒ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์งํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์žฌ์ฃผ ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋งŽ์€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋งŒ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์‹์„ ๋‚ณ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ข…์กฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๋” ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์šด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ์•„, ์œ ๋Ÿฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ€๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ ์—†๋‹ค. ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๊ฐ๊ตญ์˜ ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋“ค์€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ŠคํŽ™ ํƒ“์— ์ทจ์ง์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ทจ์ง์„ ํ•˜๊ธด ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋น„์ •๊ทœ์ง์ด๋‹ค. ๊ณ ์šฉ์˜ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ค‘์š”์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๋Œ€์  ์š”์ฒญ์— ๋ถ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ผํšŒ์šฉํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ํ”ผ์ณํฐ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด์ „์—๋„ ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์น˜ ์ •๋ถ€๋‚˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์—์„œ๋Š” ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์„ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‹œ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์žฅ์• ๋‚˜ ์œ ์ „ํ•™์  ์งˆ๋ณ‘์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์ข… ๋ช…๋ น์„ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์œ ์ „์ž๊ฐ€ ํ›„์„ธ์— ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ธ๋ฅ˜ ์ง„ํ™”์— ๋„์›€๋˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋•Œ์˜ ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์€ ์˜จ๊ฐ– ์žก๋‹คํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์œค๋ฆฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋น„ํŒ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์ž์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์†Œ๋ฉธํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ์—๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ์–ด๋Š ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋„ ์œ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ด๋“ฑํ•œ ์ธ๊ฐ„์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์‹์„ ๋‚ณ์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์‹œํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‹จ์ข…์„ ์ž์ฒ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ํ˜„์‹ค์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์ข…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์œ„๋ฅผ ์†์— ์ฅ์–ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋•Œ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ง์ ‘ ๋‹จ์ข…์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์ž˜๋ชป์€ ์—†๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ฐ€์œ„๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์„ ๋ฟ์ด๊ณ  ์„ ํƒ์€ ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด์ „ ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ๋„ ์ „ํ˜€ ๊ฑฐ๋ก ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋„ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋‚ด์—๋„ ์„œ์—ด์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๋˜ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋‚ด์—๋„ ๋ช…๋ฌธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ค‘ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์•„์ดํฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์ชฝ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ ์ถœ์‹ ๋“ค์€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์ด ๋Œ€๊ฐœ ์™•/์„ธ์ž์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์–‘๋ฐ˜ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์—๋„ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์—ด๋“ฑํ•œ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ‘๋ฒ ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ’์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋ ค์ง€๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋ฒ ๊ฐ€์™€ ์“ฐ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ์„ฑํ•œ ๋ง๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ชจ๋…์ ์ธ ๋‹จ์–ด์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์„ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๋ฒ ๋ ˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์€ ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†ํ›„ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ”ผ์ณํฐ ์ธ๊ฐ„ํ™” ์‚ฌ์ดํด์ด ๊ณ„์† ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ธ๊ฐ„์€ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋“œ๋””์–ด ์šฐ์ƒํ•™์˜ ๊ฟˆ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.