鄭慶雲의 전쟁 체험과 일본 인식

Abstract

Jeong Gyeong Wun was a member of the Nammyeong school, as a student of Jeong In Hong who was the best pupil of Jo Shik. At the time of Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592, many figures of righteous armies were Jo Shik‘s disciples. He also tried to force to overcome the national crisis by patriotic uprising. His experience of righteous army seems to give him a negative view of the official army. On the contrary, despite of a lot of damage from the army of Ming, he thought Ming's support indispensable. It demonstrates that he had thought Ming was superior to Chosun in all aspects. Jeong Gyeong Wun opposed actively to finish the war by a peace treaty with Japan. In that cas, he asserted that Chosun would take the lead of peace as well as Ming. As an opponent of the peaceful end of war, he also opposed energetically the resumption of diplomatic relationship. In my understanding, his negative opinion about the conversation with Japan, in a certain degree, came from Chosun's general perception of Japan founded on theory of the civilized and the barbarians. Jeong Gyeong Wun had a experience of flee during the war, and lost most of his family. Maybe his personal tragedy gave him a strong hostility toward Japan. Nonetheless, he admitted the superiority of Japanese military and land system over time. This shows that the Japanese invasion provided Chosun's people the opportunity to get interested in Japan. But His view of Japan was not changed. He recognized some positive side of Japan. But it did not mean that He threw out the traditional consideration of Japansese as an inferior country.