일제하 유성온천의 개발과 대전 지역사회의 변화

Abstract

The development of the ‘Yuseong Hot Springs(儒城溫泉)’ was made by Japanese in Daejeon(大田) during the japanese colonial period. They established a corporation ‘Daejeon Hot Springs’ in 1914 and opened Yuseong Hot Springs. But they failed to meet growing market demands such as continued facility investment and eventually handed over ownership and management of the company to the local elites of Gongju(公州) in the early 1920s. At this time, in addition to Gongju, external capitals flowed from Daegu(大邱) and the south manchuria(滿洲) railway company, creating a new development boom in Yuseong Hot Springs. The development of the Yuseong hot spring meant not only expansion of hot spring facilities, but also expansion of urban infrastructure such as roads and railways, and development around the Yuseong hot springs such as the entrance of inn, terminal and stores. And in this process, the inside of the Yuseong hot springs has a hierarchical structure depending on the size of capital. Meanwhile, Daejeon, the city behind the Yuseong hot spring, gradually expanded its power to win the race against Gongju, the long-time leading city in South Chungcheong Province, and as a result, the Yuseong hot spring were naturally returned to the human and material foundations of Daejeon in the 1930s. However, the significance of the Yuseong hot spring within the local community in Daejeon was elevated beyond just tourism resources for the local economy to sustainable development of Daejeon, or strategic resources for the construction of the great Daejeon(大大田). In other words, the value of the Yuseong hot springs was recontextualized within the urban planning and discourse introduced during the Japanese colonial era.