1920년대 문화사학자의 민족 자각론과 한국상고사 인식

Abstract

The 1920s was an era that gained a special driving force in the establishment of a national state. During this period, cultural history based on culturalism also appeared in Korea. Cultural history, which emerged in the 1920s, was a change in historical methodology to grasp the structure, phenomena, and meaning of historical development by pursuing political history, institutional history, and cultural history, which are changes in the upper structure of society. Early cultural history was centered on Ui-don Hwang, Do-bin Jang, Hwak Ahn, Deok-gyu Kwon, and Nam-seon Choi, who tried to reveal the excellence and specificity of Korean civilization in the pluralistic phenomenon of social structure. In the 1920s, the most important period in writing represented by cultural historians was Korean ancient history. For cultural historians, the study of Korean ancient history was not to ignore the colonial reality and flee to past historical memories, but to reorganize the history of the Korean people. Early cultural historians described our ancient history, or Gojoseon history, and saw that the beginning of our history began not with Dangun Joseon, but with Hwanjok(桓族), who led the earlier era. Furthermore, cultural historians have strengthened their awareness of Dangun, the founder of Gojoseon, in order to consider the subjectivity of our history and enhance national awareness and the value of Joseon. Cultural historians considered that after the fall of Dangun Joseon, several countries were divided in the area. It is said that Giza Joseon and Wiman Joseon led the transformation of Dangun Joseon and led the growth of Joseon during the period of this empire. This perception served as an important opportunity to expand the realm of national history by overcoming the problem of narrowing the scope of history in the Joseon Dynasty, and is meaningful as a narrative to overcome Japanese colonial history.