한국 여성 독립운동과 여성 보훈정책의 과제

Abstract

The patriots who laid down their life for the national independence movement and the patriots who devoted their life to the movement in the era under the colonial administration of imperial Japan have been always the object of attention. After ‘the law for the respectful treatment of the men of national merit of the independence’ was legislated, the law for the respectful treatment has been applied to them. In the sector of Korean women's independence movement, the 233 persons are acknowledged by the country based on the year 2013 but the respectful treatment is stagnant at the basic level of acknowledging the recipients who are the men of national merit owing to insufficient additional studies and public relations related to the independence movement. Accordingly, in order to recover the sense of existence of women who were active in the process of the national independence movement, it is important to form a connection structure between the academic world, related research institutes and the policy of reward and welfare for the patriots. In this viewpoint, the flow of finding Korean women of national merit of the independence was classified by the year, and the present situation and the characteristics of the women of national merit of the independence in each of the period were analyzed. If we look into the analysis of the materials, the 1990’s was the period when Korea was concentrating on finding the men of national merit of the independence, and it is understood that the period after the 2000’s was the time when finding them was stagnant. Presently there are only a little number of the reward and welfare institutions and organizations for woman of the national merit and the degree of participation of women appears to be low. In spite of the above fact, the value of the national reward and welfare for the women of national merit of Korean women's independence movement represents the identity of women, nation and history and it has an important meaning as the examples of the demonstrated spontaneous patriotism of women. Accordingly, practice of feasible policy of reward and welfare for the women of the national merit is necessary. Through additional finding of historical records, extension of selection of objects of reward and securing local experts, the direction that can make their devotion to the country highlighted as the example of the practice of the country-gender-patriotism should be sought. In the future, the Korean women's independence movement should be highlighted as an important sector of the history of the independence movement and the example of the spontaneous practice of the loving-country sprit of women.