舊韓末 日帝下 張道斌의 活動과 現實認識

Abstract

This paper examines Jang Do Bin’s activities and recognition of reality from the late Chosun period to the 1920’s. Jang Do Bin worked as an editorialist for the Korea Daily News[대한매일신보] and was a member of the New People’s Society[신민회] in the late Chosun period. He was greatly influenced by the uncompromising nationalists. He worked in the fields of education, media and korean history to infuse patriotism into the hearts of people and his sense of purpose to save his country. In January 1912, he was involved in the ‘105 Men incident(105人 사건)’ and fled to Manchuria as an exile. He met Shin Chae Ho(신채호) in Manchuria and was briefly an editorialist for the Kwoneop shinmun[권업신문]. He witnessed Korean’s miserable state in Vladivostok. He thought the cause of misery was idleness and emphasized the necessity of education. His two year stay in Vladivostok changed his perception. He returned from abroad and looked for meaningful work that was within the limits of allowance under the Japanese Empire. The colonial ruling policy of the Japanese Empire changed from Military Colonial rule to cultural rule with the March 1st Movement(3·1운동). With such changes in situation, the New cultural Movement(신문화운동) arose in Chosun. Jang Do Bin led a campaign to cultivate real ability in the 1920s. He established a publishing company and founded journals. He published several history books as a historian. He tried to cultivate the real ability of the nation through these activities. Moreover he paid attention to the youth as the hope of the nation and emphasized the importance of education to them. He accepted culturalism’s argument of reconstruction of the world and claimed reorganization of long standing customs. In this way, I think that Jang Do Bin turned away from nationalism and turned to culturalism in the 1920’s.