고조선사 체계의 재인식

Abstract

The Theory of Three Chosŏns, which demonstrates that the Old Chosŏn’s history progressed in three stages of Tan'gun Chosŏn, Wiman Chosŏn, and Kija Chosŏn, has been widely accepted thought since the late Chosŏn dynasty until now. Although the existence of Kija Chosŏn was denied and suggested to replace it with Kaeaji Chosŏn, or Hanssi Chosŏn(韓氏朝鮮), or Yemaek Chosŏn(濊貊朝鮮), the notion that the Old Chosŏn’s history progressed in the three stages was hardly changed. Samguksagi and Samgukyusa recognized the Old Chosŏn’s history consists of two stages; the former believed that the history of the Old Chosŏn was made of Kija Chosŏn and Wiman Chosŏn, and the latter Tan'gun Chosŏn and Wiman Chosŏn. Around the time when Chewangun'gi(帝王韻紀) was written, the author added Wiman, though a usurper, to the stages of Tan'gun’s ‘Former Chosŏn,’ and Kija’s ‘Later Chosŏn.’ Although the Old Chosŏn’s three stages seems to consist of a single lineage consistently, it was the result of synchronizing the history of three Chosŏns, which were separated from each other in time and space, into one chronology since the late Chosŏn dynasty. Thus, it is necessary to reexamine the Old Chosŏn’s history as pluralistic framework of the three Chosŏns, which was different in time and space, rather than time series of three stages.