This paper shows how the completed literary works of South Korea were organized in the political, cultural context of the 1950s, by analyzing The complete works of Korean Literature printed by Minjung publishing company(民衆書林). Planning a new Korean Literature collection after the Korean War not only suggests the reorganization of the literary field of South Korea where many writers defected to North Korea, but also implies a shift in generations of South Korea literary circles, under the government policies banning the book circulation of writers who defected from South Korea. We could face the specific aspects in the general narratives of the complete works of Korean Literature, because editors who were pro-the Association of Free Korean Writers(韓國自由文學者協會) or its major members organized these literary collections, based on the their criteria for selecting or excluding literary works. With the complete emergence of the explanatory framework that Korean literary history spread out from Lee, Kwang-su to Kim, Dong-In and literary coteries of Baekjo(白潮) or PaeHeo(廢墟), these editors of the complete works of Korean Literature arranged moderated writers and orthodox writers of The Korean Writers' Association(文協正統派) around writers of The Association of Free Korean Writers. The complete works of Korean Literature also draws our attention in that these literary collections include many popular novels which were excluded from the lists of literary canon or from the field of Korean literary research in the 1970s. Ironically, this composition shows not only how popular readers thought novels in the 1950s, but also what they really wanted to read. In other words, the publisher Minjung knows popular desire for reading materials, and reflects public literary taste actively, organizing the complete works of Korean Literature. Therefore, the appearance of the complete works of Korean Literature was caused by a complex combination of editors' desire for constructing 'a monumental work' of Korean Literature, the publisher Minjung's desire for pursuit of profits, and public readers' desire for reading materials.