제국 일본의 한반도 축산 통제 －‘이중검역체제’의 성립 과정과 그 의미－

Abstract

This paper examines how Japanese imperial control over livestock resources on the Korean Peninsula rapidly intensified after the Russo- Japanese War and transformed into a colonial structure. In terms of analysis, this study identifies the establishment process of the dual quarantine system from the new perspective of the Korean cattle resources in Japan. The study also focuses on the case of the Japanese company ‘Kankoku Kogyo’ and the Cattle Quarantine Station in Busan which was responsible for exporting live cattle. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese public opinion began to call for reorganizing Korea’s livestock into a relationship between raw production and consumption by incorporating it into the Japanese economy. This was because Japan could utilize Korean cattle as a military resource in war. On the other hand, by 1909, the existing quarantine policy, which placed a lot of restrictions on the prevention of Rinderpest, developed into a so-called “dual quarantine system” that promoted Korean cattle imports by preemptively imposing quarantines on the Korean Peninsula. At the front line, Kankoku Kogyo, which was carrying out the national policy of the Japanese empire, took over the work of the Cattle Quarantine Station in Busan and was responsible for exporting live cattle throughout the colonial period. This process meant that the Korean Peninsula had already become a source of livestock resources and transfer to the economy of the Japanese empire even prior to colonization.