일제시대 식민지 지배층화의 경로

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the tracks going to ruling class in the Japanese imperialism. The findings of this study are as following. First, Japanese colonialism direcily drafted officials by test. Japanese colonialism substituted recommendation for test as official drafting system which selected ‘loyal officials for imperialist Japan’. Japanese colonialism pretended test as a merit system and fair competition. Japanese colonialism legislated the central examination management organization to control test. Second, Japanese imperialism produced many of official reserves through school education. Japanese imperialism forced school entrance examination through test. It functioned as ‘the mechanism of selection’ that classify and filter ‘loyal subjects for imperialist Japan’. Japanese imperialist legislated the employment structure that ‘the hierarchy of public employment paralls to the hierarchy of school education’. Third, Japanese imperialism fostered practical technicians through short training school, which aimed to train special technical competency. After graduating the training schools, they became junior clerks and servant officials of low rank.