蓬萊 高麗 古船의 韓國船舶史上의 意義

Abstract

* Advisor of Research Fellow Korea Maritime Research Institute Advisor With a tradition spanning some 2,000 years, Korean traditional ships have acquired several unique features. First, they have a flat bottom made of planks joined together with Jangsak(long wooden peg). In addition, Korean ships have no main frame or transverse bulkhead, and the side panels are attached with unique grooved clinker joints. But the Penglai Koryo Ancient Ship excavated in China, 2005 has transverse bulkhead and frame instead of Garongmok(transverse beam). The Penglai Koryo Ancient Ship is the first Korean ship having bulkhead and frame for transverse beam. The author try to propose significance of the Penglai Koryo Ship in research of History of the Korean shipbuilding in this paper. First of all, the author summarized the history of research on the Korean traditional ship and details of excavation and structural characteristics of the Penglai Koryo Ancient Ship. Finally the author critically review the opinion of the shipbuilding specialists in China and Korea on the shipbuilding site of the Penglai Koryo Ancient Ship. As the results of the author's research, Dr. Underwood was the first researcher who mentioned that the Korean ship has no bulkhead and frame. Late Prof. KIM jae-geun established the above assertion as the theory of the history of the Korean shipbuilding. He maintained one of the main characteristics of the Korean ship has no frame and bulkhead. But they had to have studied the Korean ship with coastal ship only. As the results of excavation of the Penglai Koryo Ancient ship, it was to be revealed that the Korean traditional ocean-going vessel has bulkhead and frame. So the excavation of the Penglai Koryo ancient ship will be the turning point of the history of the Korean shipbuilding.