‘사건화’된 일상과 ‘활자화’된 근대: 근대초기 결혼과 여성의 몸, 섹슈얼리티- 『한성신보』(1895-1905) ‘잡보’란이 조명한 근대초기의 결혼생활 스케치

Abstract

This paper analyzed the articles, called Japbo (a miscellaneous news), printed in Hanseong Sinbo (1895～1904), especially were involved in marriage and couple life to explain how the journalism came to have the influential power upon the society and reader. To highlight this issue, this paper uses two terms as ‘everyday life as a news’, and ‘lettered modernity’. Lots of articles printed in Hanseong Sinbo were about interest, sensual and stimulating incidents which were exceptional cases. There were linked with female scandal and sexuality. Woman’s body was dealt with as violent incident and sexual harrassment. Such tendency was similar to a typical form of yellow journalism. The everyday life as an incidents which was published in Hanseong Sinbo were about marriage fraud, immoral intimacy, double marriage and rape, etc. These incidents occurred inside and outside anxioud marriage life. Illegal and immoral sexual relationship between couple were dealt with interesting sexual scandal as gossip. Sometimes these articles were publicized laughing stock. The focus of these articles was a criminal case which was involved in violence, conflict and murder, not a sex scandal itself. Hanseong Sinbo structured the image of problematic Joseon through printing such articles from time to time. The journalistic effect of this tendency in early modern Joseon period was linked with the colonial strategy whereafter. This paper researched miscellaneous articles, which were published in Hanseong Sinbo, with the viewpoint of ‘everyday life as a news’ and re-read these with the concept of ‘lettered modernity’. By doing so, this paper makes the opportunity to rethink about the political and social role of newspaper journalism in early modern period of Joseon.