일제하 형무소의 사상범 대책과 전향자 처우 -김광섭의 「獄窓日記」를 중심으로-

Abstract

This study is to address the proselytistic policy of the Japanese Government-General of Joseon, with a case of a poet Gwang-Seop Kim. He tended to be rebellious but did not social activities running aslant Chianyujibeop(the peace preservation law). With an amendment, however, Chianyujibeop made him a political offender in March 1941. He could not be impatient of prison life and thus proselyted after all. The proselytistic policy had been the linchpin to countermeasures against thought offenders since 1933 in the government general. The arrestees were compelled to proselyte in ever process, prosecution, trial and imprisonment, and all of proselytes made statements during prison. The government general seduced them by promising to ease their sufferings from prison life. Gwang-Seop Kim denied that himself was a thought offender but signed the statement of proselytism so as to ease suffering from prison life. He made the prison authorities believe him as a sincere proselyte, and as a result he was guaranteed to live in comfort comparatively and was paroled. The government general regarded his case as a fruit of its countermeasures against thought offenders. The government general branded people who were slight rebellious as thought defenders, namely unpatriotic people, and then it proselyted them again and gave rebirth to them as people. It was a numbers game and was no better than a sign that showed the insecurity of system.