재일조선인의 ‘섬’에 대한 시선

Abstract

This article analyzed the perception of Korean residents in Japan, who are a miniority in the country, towards Tsushima Island, Nagasaki, which has been researched by historians in South Korea and Japan. Recently, as research on locality and glocalism is being actively conducted regarding marine culture of Japan including local cities and islands, multidimensional studies on culture, literature, history, publishing, and tourism, among others, related to local cities have been published. Therefore, considering the research trend, this article discussed the counter-narrative among Korean residents in Japan concerning Tsushima Island, compared to the unilateral views on the island among Korean and Japanese historians. The results of this study showed the Korean-Japanese writer Kim Dalsu turned into a researcher of the ancient relationship between Korea and Japan, discovering Joseon (Korean) culture in Japan around the 1970s, and proposed a new possibility regarding perception towards Tsushima Island in his work 『Until Tsushima Island』(1975). However, in this book, despite having discovered the possibility of new interpretation of Tsushima Island that is different from one established by historians in Korea and Japan, he failed to develop a specific method of reasoning and, as a result, was lost in the narrative of the ruler and the ruled. Also, in 『Until Tsushima Island』, Kim proposed a new perception towards the Korea Straits as a boundary between Korea and Japan, but exacerbated decontextualization of the history and impossibility of transcending the border by emphasizing the narartive structure that focuses on the continuity of modern and pre-modern eras and on Korean residents in Japan as remnants of the colonialism.