일제시기 여수의 도시화 과정과 지역사회의 대응

Abstract

This study set out to capture the core conflicts caused in the urbanization process of Yeosu during the Japanese rule and investigate how the community's conflicts developed around them. The target period was between the middle 1920s and the middle 1930s as it saw a concentration of events such as major urbanization issues and visible changes. It was during the period that the competition grew fierce for the distribution rights of marine products, new railroads were built, the harbors were repaired, the municipal districts were revised, and major buildings were moved or newly constructed. The urbanization of Yeosu proceeded under the macroscopic direction of "colonial development" that involved the move and settlement of Japanese people and was led by the colonial authorities and major Japanese capital. Its urbanization shared similarities with that of other big cities that opened their harbors such as Mokpo, Gunsan, and Masan and, at the same time, widely differed from small cities whose urbanization was guided by Chosun people such as Anseong. Yeosu and Anseong, however, were alike in that they were small cities whose full-blown urbanization started after the 1920s when there was a nationwide consensus on a need for local development. The comparison of the two cities would shed light onto the influences of each community's responses on the urbanization process and the changes to the communities caused by urbanization. It seemed that the fever of local development spread wildly across the nation in the 1920s on the outside. However, the specific development processes were different according to the communities. Those differences make another case to demonstrate that the content of colonial modernity is never uniform.