‘목포권’ 도서해양문화의 창조적 재인식

Abstract

In history, island functions as a bridge of the communication, connected with the ocean, or becomes a space of an isolation. In ‘the maritime era’, before Koryeo dynasty, islands functioned as the base of the international marine trade, and during the Chosun dynasty, when the marine activity was prohibited, the island has turned into the isolated place where people cannot live. Like this, two comparative conception of the communication and isolation in the history of ‘the island and the ocean’ includes two different values. When the former includes the value of the variation through the interchange, the latter includes the value of the preservation of the ‘original culture’ through the severance. For instance, Eupdong village in Heuksan island where includes the trace of the base port in the East Asia marine trade during ‘the maritime era’ is the shining example of the former case, and the Dashiragi of Jindo or Bamdarae of Bigeumdo can be the representative example of the latter case. During ‘the maritime era’, ‘Mokpo aera’ where more than 60% of Korean islands are located, faced the prosperity, while they had to recede in ‘the era of the marine prohibition’ when the island and ocean culture has receded. In thesedays Mokpo area has faced the new opportunity when the ‘Mokpo area’ has faced ‘the maritime era’. First, it is necessary to perceive the chance. However, it is more important to creatively understand the value of the ocean and island culture of the ‘Mokpo area’. For this, people should try their best to combine two different values, the value of the variation which represents the communication and the value of the isolation which represents the preservation. Also, for this, people should prepare the variation and the development and consider about the way to preserve and practically use the culture, then they can recreate the island and marine culture into the ‘win win culture’.