1930년대 朝鮮型特殊會社, 「朝鮮電力(株)」의 연구

Abstract

As part of our research project on Chousen special-purpose companies of the 1930s, this study empirically examined the formation and management of the Chousen Electric Power Corporation, the country’s largest thermal power generation company at that time. In July of 1935, in order to ensure the abundant supply of power to the Namseon area and create a joint venture of electricity distribution companies, the Japanese Government-General of Korea established the Chousen Electric Power Corporation by mobilizing the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPCJ) and the Namseon Joint Electricity Company with the sale of coalfields in Samcheok promoted as an incentive. However, during its early years of operation, the Chousen Electric Power Corporation failed to secure electricity generation capacity and embroiled itself in a serious internal dispute over the priority of its business policy. As a result, in February of 1939, the Namseon Joint Electricity Company and the FEPCJ terminated their joint investment in Chousen Electric Power Corporation. After taking over control of the Chousen Electric Power Corporation, the Namseon Joint Electricity Company pushed ahead with business rationalization and generation capacity expansion but was incorporated into Chousen Electricity Industry Corporation under a national electricity control policy. So to speak, the Chousen special-purpose company Chousen Electric Power Corporation was a capital entity of the Japanese Government-General of Chousen’s strategic economic policy intended to develop and improve the key industry of the colonial country by mobilizing and making use of local and foreign private capital and managerial resources.