근대 초기 회의 규범의 수용과정(1)- 『의회통용규칙』을 중심으로

Abstract

Yun Chi-ho’s General Rules for the Assembly is the first modern educational book for speaking in Korea. Nevertheless, it has not attracted any interest due to the great influence of Seo Jae-pil, who had founded Hyeopseonghoe and Dongniphyeophoe, and led the public education of speech and debate. As academic clarification of General Rules for the Assembly has not been fulfilled at all as such, this paper first examines the background of its publication and the aspects of the translation of the meeting rules and terms in General Rules for the Assembly. General Rules for the Assembly was published in April, 1898 when the movement of assembly foundation began to unfold in earnest. General Rules for the Assembly has significance in that it later provided a basis for making meeting norms rooted in Korean society via its repetitive publications in various media and reproduction, furthermore, it was a foothold for the development of the movement of the national sovereignty restoring through the abolition of the monarchial system and the foundation of a republic concentrated around Sinmihoe in 1907, and it formed a basis for the parliamentarism in the period of independence struggle. Greatly contributed to the worldwide distribution of meeting rules, Yun Chi-ho’s General Rules for the Assembly contains methods to organize and operate an assembly and detailed rules and provisions to know for presiding a meeting in 7 chapters in total. Different from most of the intellectuals at that time who took the approach of dual translation that indirectly introduced the Western civilization via the modernity translated by Japan, Yun Chi-ho was unique in his way of direct translation in which he directly accommodated original Western texts. Yun, who preferred direct translation, contrasts with Fujujawa Yukichi, to the effect that the latter figure took the approach of intentional paraphrasing in order to make people easily understand while the meanings of original Western texts remained in accordance with the climate of Japan. Later, General Rules for the Assembly was repetitively published in magazines, newspapers, and educational books of speech in the 1910s to play an important role in distributing and spreading meeting norms to the people. In this course, General Rules for the Assembly was freshly adapted and varied, and was in the middle of the debate on meeting norms as the parliamentarism attracted much interest from the beginning of the independence movement in 1919. Some more specific discussion about this is left for future research.