홍석호의 항일무장투쟁과 ‘고마령참변 밀고설’ 검토

Abstract

This thesis was written to review the anti-Japanese armed struggle of Hong Seokho, the 1st commandant of the Jindongdodokbu and commander of the 4th company in 1925, and to resolve the suspicion that he was an informant of the Gomaryeong disaster. The Gomaryeong disaster occurred on February 26, 1925, when the Japanese police raided Gomaryeong, where the 2nd Company of the Korean Provisional Government Army Manchuria Chamuibu was stationed, and many members of the Chamuibu were killed. However, right after the Gomaryeong disaster, the Japanese Empire reported that it was “the result of Hong Seokho inform on to the Japanese government.” As a result, Hong Seokho was suspected of being an independence activist and an informant who betrayed his comrades. In order to resolve the suspicion surrounding Hong Seokho, Hong Seokho’s activities and anti-Japanese armed struggle before the Gomaryeong disaster were reviewed. In the records of patriotic governors, several errors about Hong Seokho were confirmed, and in newspaper reports, it was confirmed that Hong Seokho organized and operated an independent guerrilla unit and suffered damage due to his camouflage enlisted spy. In addition, documents from Japanese imperialism confirmed that Hong Seokho was involved in the internal conflict of the independence army in southern Manchuria and that he acted as the commander of the 4th company of the Jindongdodokbu. In this thesis, it was confirmed through the materials of the Jilin Province archives that Hong Seokho was arrested by the Chinese authorities immediately after the Gomaryeong disaster, and that the Japanese Empire requested the Chinese authorities to secure Hong Seokho. Considering the situation in which the Japanese imperialists usually attacked the independence army with secret agents, the fact that the Japanese imperialists failed to secure Hong Seokho immediately after the disaster in Gomaryeong dispels the rumor of his informant.