1930년대 在滿朝鮮人의 敎育政治史 연구

Abstract

This study empirically examined the general traces of issues surrounding the educational and administrative rights of Korean residents in Manchuria which began to emerge with a discussion about the abolition of extraterritoriality in Manchukuo (Manchu Nation) in the mid 1930s. Previous studies regarding the educational history of Korea residents in Manchuria have primarily focused on imperialist Japan’s policy decision-making. In view of such facts, the present study paid attention to political changes that had resulted from the resistance and responses of the Korean community in Manchuria and to the historical significance of such changes. Actually, the issue of transferring the educational and administrative rights of Koreans in Manchuria to Manchukuo led to resistance from the Korean community. As a result, it was inevitable for the Japanese Government-General of Korea and the Japanese Kwantung Army to take active counteractions in response to the resistance. In the end, the Korean community and Manchukuo, by going through negotiations and compromises, sought a conditional solution by which they could settle the transfer of Koreans’ educational and administrative rights to Manchukuo in tandem with the appointment of Koreans of influence as Manchukuo’s officials. These actions of imperialist Japan mean a changeover to the so-called "colonial administration policy of national autonomism for temporarily appeasing the resistance of the Korean community and diluting national discrimination. Eventually, the resistance and political responses of the Korean community in Manchuria to the transfer of educational and administrative rights in the mid 1930s led to the Korea-Manchukuo summit talk in Tumen and acted as a political driving force for the reorganization of imperial order, that is, the conversion of Korea-Manchukuo relations from conflict and confrontation during the early 1930s to cooperation and collaboration.