용연 김정규의 북간도 교육활동 해제

Abstract

This study mainly concentrates on the search for Yongyeon, Kim Chung-Kyu’s educational activities in North Gando. Kim Chung-Kyu of Kyungsung, North Hamgyong province is a typical person among the Yuejungchuksa. In 1908, after he failed in living as a patriotic soldier in the area of Kyungsung, he decided to exile himself in North Gando. He started to expand the educational activities and national salvation movement at Ssangpodong Yanji in North Gando in June 1908. During the Kyungsung period, Heeyangzae has already been built and treated Yongyeon as a local study where he was engaged in educational activities and settled down in North Gando. Furthermore, from 1907 to 1921, he recorded not only his whereabouts and thoughts but also the political situation of the age and left it for posterity. It’s an important data that will not only confirm his national salvation movement and his thoughts on his lifetime of educational but the history of the national movement and education itself as well. This study will reveal Kim Chung-Kyu’s 11 years of educational activities which were recorded from 1909 (the year of his exile in the North Gando) to 1921. The purpose of this study is to analyze his educational activities in North Gando, his reading activities, teaching activities, writing activities, dating activities and the national salvation movement, which is based on Confucianism and his educational thoughts. He wants to guard Confucian philosophic theory through integrity, respect, and justice.