1920년대 초반 조선총독부의 산업정책과 조선인 자본가

Abstract

In the early 1920s, the Chosun Governor-General of Korea amended the tariff system to include a uniform tariff system and the elimination of import taxes. Industrial policy, especially tariff policy, had a locality, so Korean and Japanese capitalists in Korea remained in the same interests on various issues related to the abolishment of import taxes. The Korean capitalists demanded to implement protection incentives. They insisted on the 'Korean-oriented' protection policy. Their demands came from a fear that they might not survive the competition with Japanese capitalists, and was accompanied by a critique of social evolution. The Korean capitalists perceived the necessity of national protection incentives to grow into industrial capitalists. Without their demands being accepted, the Korean capitalists, who felt a crisis due to the elimination of the import taxes, raised the movement for the Encouragement of Korean Products since 1923. With the decline of the movement, however, they returned to the demand of national protection incentives. At that time, Chosun Governor-General Office did not represent the regional interests of the Chosun peninsula and the Korean capitalist group also did not take an active stance of cooperation. If they recognized that the state should perform its role as the protector of its own industry in the early days of capitalism, the attitude of the Korean capitalists to Chosun Governor-General could change according to the latter’s attitude toward them. The regional and class interests of the Korean capitalists and their dependence on the state always implied the possibility of cooperation.