근우회와 신간회의 연대성 검토

Abstract

Shin’gan-hwe was an organization which surfaced in the 1920s, calling itself the one and only party representing the Korean race based on a cooperative front. On the other hand, Geun’u-hwe was an organizational body created by a cooperative front in the Women’s movement. These two organizations never worked together or created a cooperative committee, even on individual issues or cases. They were called as ‘sister organizations,’ but their cooperation lasted merely a year, during which they did declare their support of each other, in the very early stage of both of their foundations. One may say it was only an exchange of supportive words and nothing more. What did exist between the two bodies was a marginal human connection, enabled through the Feminist movement activists who were involved with both organizations. Such connection remained till both of them were dissolved. In the early days, when students of the Sukmyeong High/Middle school for Girls (“Sukmyeong Yeo-gobo”) entered an allied strike (refusal of classes), both organizations cooperated with each other within the confines of a response committee named the Parents Association. But when the Gwangju Students Movement broke out, both organizations were in pretty bad shape, and they only responded to the situation separately, like together just making preparations for the People Convention under the goal of guiding, supporting and overall promoting School girls’ alliances all across the country. As we can see, Geun’u-hwe and Shin’gan-hwe stood independently till the end, never attempted any organizational alliance, but maintained its mutually supportive stance as well as a low-key cooperation with each other, in social movements nonetheless.