강진 병영상인에 관한 역사적 재조명

Abstract

The research is about retracing the history of ‘ByeongYeong merchants in Gangjin’ and it focuses on the fact that ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ exist in South Korea as much as ‘Gaeseong merchants’ by studying of formation procedure of ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ which has been going on from Unified Silla till modern times right after liberation in 1945. Like the old saying “Gaeseong merchants in North, ByeongYeong merchants in South,” there is no research about ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ who were treated as much as Gaeseong merchants equally compare to the study of other countries’ merchants or other region in Korea. In this reality, local historians and local presses in the region study about the formation of ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ and shed new light on ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ in history and set up one of the typical business spirit of Korea and furthermore they want to develop “ByeongYeong merchants’ as the model of Korean entrepreneurial spirit.Also this study is very meaningful to introduce ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ was called “Gaeseong merchants in North, ByeongYeong merchants in South” and to discover “ByeongYeong merchants” as the representative merchants of Korea along with Gaeseong merchant by researching historical formation procedure of ‘ByeongYeong merchants’. The history of ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ is divided into 3 periods by historical and the first period is period of before ‘ByeongYeong in Jeolla province’ and the second period is ‘ByeongYeong in Jeonla province’ and the third period is after closing ByeongYeong in Jeolla province’.This research shows the fact that ‘the ByeongYeong merchants’ had to be appeared before ‘King of Sea, Jang bogo’ to see that Cheonghaejin which was the hub of ocean trading with Arabia, Japan and China in Unified Silla was Gangjinhyeun till 1895 and finally ‘ByeongYeong merchants’ was truly born with the ByeongYeong was built in Chosun dynasty and it is continued still. There are several expectations and utilizations from this research for formation of ‘ByeongYeong merchants in Gangjin’ like below. First, this research can be used as the basic information of various merchants by shedding new light on the entrepreneurial spirit of the best Korean merchants historically. In other words, this research made an opportunity to set up the traditional entrepreneurial spirit of Korea by ‘ByeongYeong merchants’. Also this research can be provided itself as new guide lines and basic information to study entrepreneurial spirit, business philosophy and business management of descendents who succeeded to entrepreneurial spirit and try to expand the this research contributes to expand the range of this theme.