지식의 기획과 번역 주체로서의 동아시아 미디어― 『朝陽報』를 중심으로

Abstract

Joyangbo(朝陽報) was a non-official publication that pursued a commercial general-interest magazine for the first time in Korea. This study judges that the layout of Joyangbo, which introduced the sections of <Business(實業)>, <Story Collection(談叢)>, and <Fiction(小說)> for the first time among Korean magazines, was the result of referring to The Sun(太陽), Japan's representative general-interest magazine. However, although the same framework was used, what it was filled with was entirely up to the media's choice. This paper reveals that Joyangbo was not only the media of translation, but also was 'the subject of translation', by putting together cases where the editorial staff of Joyangbo selected materials from specific Chinese and Japanese books and arranged them in different ways. Behind the appearance of media and the distribution of knowledge, which were phenomena in a period of transition to the modern era, there was the practice of 'translation'. As shown by the facts that more than 70% of leading articles in the <Editorial(論說)> section of Joyangbo and 100% of stories in its <Fiction> section depended on translation, translation was indispensable for the Enlightenment Movement through periodicals in the late 1990s. This is the very reason that media of the time itself should be reconsidered in terms of 'the field of translation(飜譯場)'. The problem of 'translation' has generally been reasoned at the antipode of 'spontaneous development', and thus has always been at the periphery of the history of study. However, given the existence aspects of magazines during the period of the Great Korean Empire, this is almost like putting the cart before the horse. It is the reorganization of knowledge that the subjects of magazine publication regarded as important. Basically, various knowledge and discourses they desperately tried to disseminate were not within the domain of self-production. Therefore, to elicit 'spontaneous development' from a new dimension, the reconstruction of knowledge-field had to precede. This is the nature and orientation of the translation of the time. The reason that what translations mean should be more actively investigated is that the translation itself is ultimately the product of 'spontaneous choice'.