근대 초기 한국인의 동아시아 인식― <청춘>과 <개벽>의 자료를 중심으로

Abstract

There is an apparent difference in the Korean intellectual’s understanding of East Asia before and after 1910. Japan advocated East Asian countries solidarity based on their common cultural experiences of East Asian civilization, and it has ever aroused the general sympathy at a certain level among Korean intellectuals. However this positive response was withdrawn after Japan colonized Korea in 1910. On the contrary, the stand of those who denied the ideological logic based on the common civilization of East Asia and resolutely drove the westernization, was apparently consolidated. Since colonization, in Korea, imagining the traditional East Asian civilization in common was suspected to be an attitude of pro-Japan. Since 1910, the Korean intellectual’s understanding of East Asia was basically defined by nationalization. This view provided a greater interest in practical solidarity with China. Especially, the various and concrete analyses about East Asian societies began to appear on modern journals published in Korea, since 1920. The ultimate goal of these analyses was focused on overcoming the circumstances in colonized Korea. The article of Yi Dong-gok appeared on The Beginning of the World would be one of the typical cases. Yi was paying an attention with acute observation to the process of Chinese Revolution. And he was viewing that the Chinese Revolution could be a chance creating the joint revolutionary changes in East Asia especially, the chance of Korea’s independence.