『관동지(關東誌)』의 편찬 과정과 사료적(史料的) 특성(特性)

Abstract

Gwan-dong-ji is a geography book compiled from Gangwon province in the early 19th century. As the first geography book for Gangwon province, Gwan-dong-jicontains only the geography of each district belonging to the province. These forms have significant value when we study the geographic situation of the country and the province of the time comprehensively. Some data related to local exist in the other histories, but most of those data are scattered. For that reason, it is hard to understand each local situation horizontally at the specific time with the other data. Gwan-dong-ji has some defects involving the lack of unity, missing data, errors and omissions. But the defects cannot make the historical value of Gwan-dong-ji be dropped. Gwan-dong-ji is very important data to understand not only each district but also the financial affairs, the troops, the society and the culture of Gangwon province. Especially, much part of explains everyday life of the time in detail, for instance, the status of financial management of the Gangwon-Kamyoung(Supreme Local Government Office), treatments for the government officials and prices at that time. Through these detailed and useful facts, concrete aspects of those days can be understood. From this points, Gwan-dong-ji is the aggregation of data for Gangwon province even though its structure has some differences between each district. As a geography which was compiled after 60 years since the had been compiled in the mid 18th century, Gwan-dong-ji is very useful historic data to learn the entire social aspects at that time and the operation of Gangwon-Kamyoung.