법정사 항일유적지 고찰

Abstract

The fact that the location of the Beopjeong temple during the Beopjeongsa anti-Japanese movement in Jeju in 1918 was adjacent to the residential area of the slash and burn farmers who participated in the anti-Japanese movement was highlighted. According to the records related to the anti-Japanese movement demonstrated in the Trial Decision of the case of Koo-yong, Jeong and the moving dotted lines around the temple shown on the Jeju map of the 1918 Joson 1/50,000 topographical map, it was disclosed that some of the slash and burn farmers took part in the anti-Japanese movement as activists. At the field check, it was confirmed that some of the access roads and the remains of the homes of the slash and burn farmers as shown on the topographic map remained. Through interviewing the farmers’ descendants and checking out the family trees of them, it was proved that some of the farmers served as the anti-Japan activists in the anti-Japanese movement. In the process of collecting evidence, it was revealed that even during the period of Japanese colonial rule after the temple was burned by the Japanese police, the temple was still functioning as a temple by the Bodhisattva, In-hwa, Baek. It was confirmed that the temple was closed due to the Jeju4·3 uprising and the current Beopjeong temple was founded between 1954 and 1963.