일제시기 순천권의 재편과 사회운동의 지역적 양상

Abstract

During the Great Han Empire period and the Japanese colonial period the regional institutions were reorganized on the base of the 'county' unit in order to take control over the local Koreans efficiently. In this process, the Suncheon region was also restructured, but its sphere of the jurisdiction was gradually reduced and its influence was weakened, too. But such tendency could not dissolve the regional historicity of the inner regions and the deep relationship between the Suncheon region and the other outside regions. The response of this region against the local rule of the Imperial Japan was almost the same as the other region's one, but it was very characteristic that the Suncheon region located on the center of the social movement in the Jeonnam eastern region. This type of the social movement, which became visible with the various organizations, Namsunnongminyeonmaeng, Jeonnamdongbucheongnyeonyeonmaeng, and Jeonnamdongbukijadaehoe and so on, were basically developed within the deep relation to the regional historicity of this region. Namsunnongminyeonmaeng and the Journalist Congress of Jeonnam eastern region in 1923 had the unique character in that these were widely organized beyond the county, and that the most powerful activists in the Suncheon region positively took a part in this making of the organization. In a while, Jeonnamdongbucheongnyeonyeonmaeng and Jeonnamdongbukijadaehoe were relative narrowly organized, with openly declaring itself as an organ for targeting mainly the so-called Jeonnam east six county, namely Suncheon, Gwangyang, Yeosu, Gurye, Goheung, Boseong Beolgyo etc., where they would speak for. And it were the leaders in Suncheon and Gwangyang who had taken the lead of these organizations. The Korean 6․10 Movement made the Imperial Japan an opportunity to oppress the Chosun Communist Party. While being stirred up by this incident, its second oppression affair became a great blow of the social movement in the Jeonnam eastern region. The activists of the Jeonnam eastern region, who had the relation to the Chosun Communist Party confronting with the Korea Communist Alliance, were mostly arrested and its social movement was rapidly curtailed. In this circumstance Jeonnamdongbucheongnyeonyeonmaeng accepted the movement program of the 'Unification' Chosun Communist Party, and it finally declared its dissolution on thirty November, 1927. It meant the decline of the social movement on the base of its regional historicity which had developed in the Jeonnam eastern region and had its main center in Suncheon region.