《어린이》지의 ‘어린이날 기념호’ 연구 -어린이날 제정의 정신과 어린이 해방 사상 조명을 중심으로-

Abstract

This paper primarily reviewed Bang Jung-hwan’s Children’s Day Movement, the Children’s Day Memorial Issue, and through this, it sheds light on Bang Jung-hwan’s idea of child liberation at the base of the Children’s Day movement in the early 1920s. “Children” was the only children’s literary magazine that published the “Children’s Day Anniversary” every year. Bang Jung-hwan’s article “Children’s Day” shows the significance of the child liberation movement. The person who first theorized the theory of child liberation and set it in the direction of social movement is Kim Ki-jeon of Sochun. Based on this, Bang Jung-hwan led the Young People’s Liberation Movement centered on the Boys’ Association. Meanwhile, the Children’s Day Memorial Issue of Children’s Day began with the May 1923 issue of Children’s Day, and went through the process of growth, leap period (1923-1925), middle and break period (1926-1927), and flood and repression period (1928-1935). Korea’s Children’s Day was established on May 1, 1922, and it was confirmed that it could be settled with rapid growth for about three years from 1923 to 1925. In addition, Bang Jung-hwan was a great contributor to making Children’s Day a Korean children’s holiday by launching Children’s Day in March 1923 and publishing Children’s Day Anniversary every year. As Kim Ki-jeon and Bang Jung-hwan have been recognized as theoretical song practitioners of the Korean children’s movement, the direction of Kim Ki-jeon’s youth movement, which was proposed as the goal of “boy liberation” was in line with Bang Jung-hwan’s children’s movement. Bang Jung-hwan practiced a more specific and practical form of the children's movement, and his ideas for child liberation were concentrated in the first Declaration of the Liberation of the Children in 1923.