일제강점기 여성잡지 『家庭之友』의 「國語講座」에서 보는 일본어교육

Abstract

This article examines The Friend of Family, a women's magazine first published in December 1936 by the Federation of Korean Financial Unions, a government-run organization of the Korea Governor-General. Friend of Family opened a Japanese Language Course in its Issue No. 3, and along with that, it tried to educate Korean rural women under the war system. The Japanese Language Course, published in a series from March (No. 3) to October 1938 issues (No. 15) was examined from the perspective of rural women's enlightenment and post-gun women's development. A remarkable feature of this magazine is that the number of readers increased every month, thanks to the gathering of wives to hold a reading session. Like the 1940s women's magazine Japanese Women (Korean version) that circulated among Korean women, Friend of Family was intended to enlighten Korean women and train them by subscribing to an organization’s newspaper. The contents of Japanese Language Course aimed "to inform the changing world to rural women." and covered topics appropriate for readers, publishers, and that time. First, it included vocabulary and contents related to rural life for rural women, and the contents of vocabulary related to financial unions were introduced according to the nature of the magazine published by the financial union. Finally, it was found that the contents included the war-related vocabulary and government communications required for the Japanese wartime regime from 1937 to 1938.