한국고대사 연구의 회고와 과제

Abstract

The paper is written for the purpose of finding a guidance on future policy by taking a view of the product of a study of Korean ancient history. This paper arranged the outcome of the study of Korean ancient history according to areas of the history of classification except the history of diplomacy, just because the product tendency of the history of Korean foreign exchange had been announced separately. However, the paper took a brief report on the periodical study tendency which were studied carelessly. To find the developmental stages of the present society by synthesizing the study outcomes of a Korean ancient history, will naturally present an apprehension system of a study of Korean ancient history in meaningful way. The Korean ancient history which was evolved in the stage of the Korean peninsula and Manchuria areas had composed a unified nation and national culture despite the inflation of Chinese power. The study of a Korean ancient history is having some difficulties on lacking of documentary records. The value of research materials such as SamKoogSaGi or SamKoogYuSa is facing negation from two perspectives: first, the reason of the compilation of documentaries which was done during Koryo period, was not recorded by the people from the right period, second, the reason of the propensity perspective of the study of populace which was appeared during democratization of the Korean society. Thus, by having discredit on a few remained documentary records, the study of a Korean ancient history has been searched methodology to overcome lack of the historical material. From early in the period, the specific aspects of the study of Korean ancient history was explained by adopting contiguous theories such as archeology, anthropology, folklore, and the study of religion, etc. However, before adopting the outcomes of contiguous theories, it is important to have realization on the truth of history from the original historical documents by careful consideration about outcomes of the study.