일제 강점기 개항장의 도시화 과정과 식민지 근대화의 이중성

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to research the urbanization process of Mokpo, Gunsan, and Yeosu, which are representative port cities of Honam in the modernization process during the Japanese colonial period, and to find out what kind of duality it has in the historical background and social relationship of colonial modernization. Mokpo, Gunsan, and Yeosu, which opened ports in order through Busan and Incheon during the Japanese colonial period, became urbanized due to the Japanese colonial rule's logistical base, acidity growth plan, railroad construction, and expansion of Japanese residences. Discrimination and oppression against them intensified, and the Koreans economically collapsed. However, within the awareness of the problem of colonial modernization, I paid attention to the synchrony that penetrated the empire and the colony, and diachronism that connected the colonies with the later colonies. I tried to find the identity of the three cities as an In-Between space located within the awareness of resistance, cooperation, and modernization. The port's circulation function and fluidity with a governing mechanism for internal affairs had multi-layered meanings of producing, reproducing, and controlling social subjects other than those of power. At the same time, the port's local identity, which intersects homogeneity and heterogeneity and creates various differences and différances, has the potential of indeterminacy and positive meaning as an In-Between space. As open ports during the Japanese colonial period, Mokpo, Gunsan, and Yeosu had the duality of colonial modernization as In-Between space, but they have interlocking and interrelationships in the midst of active migration and exchange, and the intersection of global and local. Mokpo, Gunsan, and Yeosu, which still have overlapping spatiality and are constantly being reconstructed in a hybrid manner, have infinite potential as social constructs.