파리장서운동과 성주유림

Abstract

Pari Jangsŏ Undong is The movement for petition of Korean independence by the Confucian literati. This movement had developed for four months between around February 19 and June of 1919. The petition movement was provided by the tow following facts: Confucian literati’s sense of loss that their representatives were excluded from the thirty-three "representatives of all the Korean people" who signed the Korean Declaration of Independence and their resentment of the pro-Japanese collaborators who presented their "declaration against independence" to the Japanese imperialists. After several revisions, Pari Jangsŏ was finally completed. It started as the "Chang Sŏk-yŏng edition". It then was revised to the "Kwak Chong-sŏk edition", which added to the "Kim Pok-han edition" to be the "final edition." This "final edition" was revised to the "Shanghai edition" in Shanghai. By now the "Shanghai edition" has not been confirmed. The conventional wisdom is that the draft of the "Kwak Chong-sŏk edition" is regarded as the "Kim Hwang edition", but it is contrary to the fact. It is obvious that in the course of drawing up, the "Chang Sŏk-yŏng edition" was the draft of the petition. Pari Jangsŏ Undong was led by the Confucian literati from Sŏngju. The Sŏngju region produced fifteen signers of the petition. This resulted from the fact that in the Sŏngju region school ties of the traditional Confucian literati were very strong and the yangbanfamilies succeeded them generation after generation. In sum, Pari Jangsŏ Undong was the March First Independence Movement of the Confucian literati. While the March First Movement declared Korean independence against Japan on a national scale, Pari Jangsŏ Undong sought to plead Korean independence to the world as well as declare Koreans’ will for independence to the international community. The Confucian literati from Sŏngju played the central role in the momentous movement.