상업출판의 관점에서 본 19세기 고지도

Abstract

Research on the commercial publications of the late Joseon dynasty has been conducted mostly by scholars of classical vernacular fiction. As a result, prior works on the publishing industry have dealt predominantly with printed books of vernacular fiction that were lent out to readers for a fee. Such printed loan-out books, however, provide no information on their authors or their publishers so it is impossible to identify the original writers or the companies that produced them. But in the case of books written in Chinese characters, which were published in much greater numbers than vernacular works, a marginal amount of information on the authors and publishers is available. By elucidating the publication process of Chinese-character writings, we can surmise that of vernacular works as well. This article examines various nineteenth-century maps in the context of the publishing industry of the period, demonstrating that such maps were published commercially in printed sheets. I further show that Kim Jeongho’s works Daedongyeojido and Chunggudo were both produced for profit (Kim worked in the publishing industry as an editor of both printed and hand-written books). While scholars of maps have already pointed out that nineteenth-century maps were produced for a commercial purpose, none have examined them in the general context of late Joseon dynasty publishing industry. Since research on the period’s commercial publications have not dealt with the issue of maps, an exploration of the topic will deepen our understanding of the industry.