This thesis aims to look into the need and way of research on regional literature. Modern humanistics in Korea require new regional recognition considering 3 situations that are the colonial experience of the past, anticommunism, and the digital revolution. The new recognition would be regional centripetalism, ideological pluralism, and indisciplinery dialogism. The research of regional lierature show new approaches based on 4 categories, a writer, a p개duct, a reader, and a researcher. First, a writer can be studied, differently from the point of view of nationalism, with seeking non-elite literary men, concerning minor writers, and studing writers three-dimensionally. Next, the ways of approaching to a product can show findings on surrounding discourse and opened imagination about adjacent branch-test as well as excluded products at the truce and location-literature that devotes to form regional images. Third, the manner of approaching to a reader can meet the demands of readers Readers` society as well as literary education and administration would be studied concretely. Thus, the research on regional lieterature have lots of group advantages. Finally, a researcher can have an academic courage to challenge the discourse of main current and to form the region. Therefore, it is possible to spread altruistic attitude that took root in life-world. The research on regional literature is the beginning method for the first time in the study of modern literature. It is an important and new method to restore the richness of Korean literature. Thus, more interests are required in the research of regional literature.