대동문화연구원출간사업의성과와의의

Abstract

Daedong Institute for Korean Studies has conducted the business of photoprinting classical materials for convenience in academic researches and the publishing of academic research books, which is one of the main functions of academic research, for the last 50 years. Photoprinted publications of the institute are mostly highly valuable and rare in the history of science. The institute has concentrated its effects on collecting major writings of the scholars of the Silhak (Practical Science) School, and published historically important materials in series. As a result, 44 kinds of 238 facsimile‐edition books have been published. This accomplishment should be highly valued in that they provide basic materials on the Korean history of science. In the future, we need to collect and publish these facsimile editions more extensively and to digitalize them for broader use. For the last 50 years, Daedong Institute for Korean Studies has published 8 kinds of Korean translations, 4 kinds of material collections, several kinds of indexes and dictionaries, and special publications such as ''The Outline of Korean Philosophies,'' and 25 kinds of research books. In various ways from photoprinting materials to the publishing of individual research books, the institute published results from each process of academic research, and accumulated the outcomes of academic activities. A major characteristic of collections of researches is that classical figures were illuminated intensively. That is, when collections of researches are reviewed as a whole, researches on classical figures representing Korean philosophy and literature formed a consistent flow. This can be considered that the scientific identity of 'subjective inheritance of the tradition of national science' established in the 1970s has been handed down steadily from the 1980s to the present.