‘홍성우 변호사 인권변론 기록’의 가치와 과제: 1977년 리영희 교수 필화 사건을 중심으로

‘Hong Sungwoo Archive’ is a record that Mr. Sungwoo Hong collected when he was working as a defense attorney for various human rights litigations from 1970s to 1980s. This archive was known to the world by a book entitled “An Era of Human Rights Defense” written by Professor In-Sub Hahn after he interviewed Mr. Hong. The archive, composed of 133 cases and 1207 records in over 46000 pages, presents tremendous amount of materials. The purpose of this article is to investigate the value of this material, focusing on an Anti-Communism Law case against Professor Young-hee Lee, a liberal thinker and journalism scholar, who wrote the books <An Discourse with 8 Hundred-Million People> and <Idol and Reason> in 1977. He served more than 2 years in jail on account of praising the Chinese Communist Party in these books about China under the Park’s military government. The records of Lee’s case included in the ‘Hong Sungwoo Archive’ remind us of the history that we should not forget, tell us who would be the perpetrators, and thus show the evolution of the Criminal Law and Procedure of Korea. The author suggests that future researchers draw attention on this archive, search for a way to open this archive to the public without violation of privacy, and gather similar records from across the country to establish national archive.