慶南儒林의 巴里長書運動에서의 動向과 <疆土詩 示諸生>에 대한 次韻詩

Abstract

The Paris Letter Movement was a typical case of anti-Japanese Independence Movement by confucian scholars along with other patriotic corps’ activities. Previous studies on the Paris Letter Movement has dealt with somewhat smaller roles of Gyeongnam confucian scholars including Kwak-Jongseok in the movement. So, this study tries to reconsider the signers of the Paris letter, focusing Gyeongnam confucian scholars. Gyeongnam confucian scholars who signed the Paris letter were forty-two in total, including Kwak Jongseok, the representative signer, while previous studies dealt with forty signers. Conventional studies showed that Kim Changsook had sent Kim Hwang to Kwak Jongseok, asking his leading the movement. However, a different idea was raised that Yun-Chungha, Kwak’s follwer, had suggested making a plea to Paris Peace Conference and that Kwak-Jongseok had sent Kwak-Yeon and Kim-Hwang to Kim-Changsook in Seoul. So, this study investigated the trend of Gyeongnam confucian scholars, focusing Kwak-Jongseok and his followers such as Kwak-Yeon, and Kim-Hwang, who played the midwife role of the Paris Letter Movement. Cheon-Woo was said to clarify his refusal to participate the movement showing the Gangtosi to his followers. His Gangtosi was handed down as the original poem of the corresponding-rhymed poem in the collection of works by Seong-Soonyoung, not in the collection of Cheon’s follower. Seong-Soonyoung refuted Cheon’s attitude toward the life and world by a poem with the rhymes of the Gangtosi, and Lee-Jonghong also criticized Cheon by a verse with the same rhymes. Seong-Soonyoung were confucian scholars in the Gyeongnam Province. The first review was made on Cheon’s Gangtosi and the corresponding-rhymed poems in this study. This study had a key meaning in reconsidering the signers of the Paris Letter and the correponding-rhymed poem as to Cheon’s Gangtosi and in reconfirming the trend of Gyeongnam confucian scholars who defied the Japanese invasion, leading fierce patriotic corps activities in the national crisis.