대한제국기 대한부인회 잠업강습소의 조직과 활동

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the activities of the Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office; a women's organization created in July 1905. In 1905, as the women's social gatherings between Joseon and Japan became active, the wife of a Japanese legation official in Joseon insisted on organizing the Joseon-Japan Women's Association, and Lee Ok-kyung joined forces to create the Daehan Women's Association. Lee Ok-kyung, who was pro-Japanese, was elected as the chairman, and a number of wives of the Tonggambu(統監府) officials were appointed as the executives. The Daehan Women's Association planned to set up and operate a Training Office for women and was granted the Sericultural Experiment Station in Yongsan, which belonged to the Gungnaebu(宮內府). The Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office was originally an educational institution for women, but there were few female applicants in the beginning, so it recruited and operated male students. As the number of female applicants for admission gradually increased, only women were selected and educated from 1909. The Daehan Women's Association- Sericulture Training Office selected students after oral and written and arithmetic tests, and trained them in theory and practice for four to six months. The Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office produced a total of 92 graduates in the four-year period from 1906 to 1909. After graduation, the students of the Sericulture Training Office were appointed as engineers of the Ministry of Agriculture, or became teachers of the Government Administration and Private Sericulture Training Office. Some of the graduates established Sericulture Schools, and established sericulture-related societies and sericulture research institutes. In addition to the Sericulture training, the Sericulture Training Office also distributed silkworm eggs and mulberry seedlings, or mediated the purchase of silkworm eggs and Sericulture tools to students and local sericulture farmers. It also featured silkworm-related items at the 1907 Gyeongseong(京城) Exposition. In addition, Queen's Chinjam-rye(親蠶禮) guidance and sericulture education for royal and governmen officials were provided. In February 1910, when the imperial Japan reorganized and operated the Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office as a governmental women's Sericulture Training Office, the Sericulture Training Office was abolished.