1950~60년대 월남민의 철원 정착과 삶

Abstract

This article seeks to recreate the lives of refugees in the post Korean War Cheorwon region by tracing their resettlement process and relationships with the indigenous population. I examined the demographics of the Cheorwon area before and after the Korean War, and the relationship between outsiders and natives. During the Japanese occupation, Cheorwon formed a new society as the influx of outsiders accelerated due to the construction of Buli Farm and special tourism to Kumgangsan Mountain, and grew to become a major region in Gangwon along with Chuncheon. After liberation, it went through the reign of the North Korean government as it was incorporated into the North Korean region, and it has remained an underdeveloped area since the Korean War due to its specificity as a reclaimed area. In particular, after the war, Cheorwon underwent a process of military urbanization, attracting people with diverse pasts, including soldiers and their families, indigenous people (North and South Koreans), and outsiders for socioeconomic reasons. Rather than revealing the conflicts of the indigenous people during the reign of the North Korean government, the military urbanization of Cheorwon showed a ‘silent’ acknowledgement of each other based on the relationship between soldiers (military families) and North Koreans (outsiders). The resettlement of refugees in Cheorwon in the 1950s and 1960s was not a history of refugees, but rather a process of the formation of a new Cheorwon community.