잡지 『신민』에 재현된 사회주의 담론의 양상과 전략 -1925년 전후 ‘치안유지법’ 실시를 중심으로-

Abstract

Around the enforcement of ‘Public Peace Maintenance Law’ in 1925, the socialism discourse rapidly shrunk in the Chosun public sphere. Under the ideological control and publication censorship of Japanese Imperialism, and then the closure of 『Gaebeok』, there is no public media to appeal to the Korean people. In this situation, government-manufactured media 『Shinmin』 laid actively the socialism discourse. Instead of one-sided ‘control’, strategic logics of ‘management’ sought to effectively occupy empire planning in colonial public opinion. 『Shinmin』 didn't come up to the surface anti-socialism. Through the ‘Pose of Intentional Neutrality’ 『Shinmin』 selected/excluded the certain socialism topics in which empire's understanding was projected, and then it pursued the critique of ‘reasonable argument’ with the logical analysis focused on the ‘contradiction’ of the socialism phenomenon. Through the approach of coordinating the interests of the empire Japan and the Korean people, 『Shinmin』 continuously prevented Russian real socialism and the Bolshevik government and persuaded the limitations and incompleteness of them. Also, 『Shinmin』 coordinated issues and differentiated response strategies depending on the political Dynamics of Russia-China- Korea. Finally it wanted to block the interest and sympathetic identification toward socialism, that the Korean public had about it. 『Shinmin』 considered the reality of Joseon, at the same time, appropriated the reality of Joseon into the intention of the empire. With dual vision and multiple strategies, 『Shinmin』 constituted colonial public opinion and performed a complex task as public opinion media of government.