대한자강회 남양지회의 애국계몽운동

Abstract

Daehan Jaganghoi was a Patriotic Enlightenment Organization. It tried to achieve the Independence-Self Reliance through education, industry, and political reform with the infusion of the patriotic spirit. In order to fulfill this goal, it increased the number of the members in the central committee and founded the 33 branches in the important local cities. Lee Chang Hoi who was the evangelist of Namyang Methodist Church joined the Daehan Jaganghoi as the member of the central committee. Afterwards he requested the foundation of its branch at Namyang in August 1906 and it was approved. The membership increased from 37 to 64. The membership consisted of some christians and most enlightened confucian scholars. Namyang branch played the important roles in the foundations of the private schools such as those of Jung Si Hyeon, Jung Tae Hyeon, and Kim Kyo Chan, and the teaching of Kim Hyo Weon in new built school for modern education. Lee Chang Hoi developed BoHeong school into the most important middle school at Namyang. In the process of it’s development, he received the supports of the branch’s members and particularly the strong support of the central committee in the process of the transfer of the land of the confucian temple. Lee Chang Hoi and Kim Kyo Chan held the joint sport meeting in which the near schools participated. They tried to spread the Patriotic Enlightenment Movement in the students and the residents who attended the sport meeting. Namyang Brand took the lead of the National Debt Repayment Movement in 1907. For the economic development, some members founded the salt company at Seojeujemeon in 1907. It push forward with the purposes of Daehan Jajanghol in the cooperation of the christians and the enlightened confucian scholars, struggling with the confucian temple. But it had a obvious limit that it did not strongly resist the Japan.