식민지 조선과 ‘남양’이라는 타자

Abstract

This research examines the geopolitical influence relationship between the Namyang Island(南洋諸島, Southern Ocean), the Japanese Empire, and colonial Korea(Choseon), focusing on discourses related to the Namyang(南洋諸島, Southern Ocean) published in Japan and Korea during the period of Japanese occupation. Consider the substance of cognition. I aim at things. “So'Namyang Islands” is a term that appeared in Meiji era Japan to refer to a part of Pacific Micronesia. Since then, in the Taisho period, while the Japanese empire focused on maritime development, the “Namyang Islands”' was defined as a core development target for creating economic benefits for Japan. Such a view of the Japanese Empire toward the “Namyang Islands” is accepted by the colony of Korea as it is. In Korea, which had no connection with maritime exploration during its long historical period, the importance of maritime exploration suddenly became paradoxical. It started appearing. In this research, I will focus on the strange dynamical relationship between Imperial Japan, colonial Korea, and the Namyang Islands, which was another “batterer” of the empire and was a colony. This is because, beyond the geopolitical influence relationship, abnormal signs such as the coercive integration of the empire into the colonies, the magneto-distortion of the colonies and the self-splitting that occurred in this process are constantly being discovered. The paradoxical situation of colonial Korea, which had to distort and internalize the selfish desire of the Japanese empire to “batter” the Namyang Islands and its territorial expansion, is called the “Namyang Islands.” It can be said that it appeared intricately looking back through space.