1930년대 식민지 조선의 근대 관광

Abstract

This research aimed at making an analysis of the modern tourism of colony Chosun in the 1930s by dividing that period into Period 1 prior to the execution of the National Mobilization Law in 1938 and Period 2 after the execution of the national mobilization law. Through this study, this research could re-confirm that the modern tourism of colony Chosun was closely linked with Japanese imperialism. Thus, the modern tourism of colony Joseon was believed to start with the launch of the Colony Office. In addition, the Japanese Government-General of Korea had adopted a tourist attraction development policy since the 1910s and steadily spread this policy up to the 1930s, which is judged to correspond to the intention of the Japanese Government-General of Korea which intended to acknowledge and develop tourism as an industry. This means that the modern tourism of colony Joseon was born to the Colony Office, but shows that the capitalistic economic principle underlay this aspect. However, it was the period when the war situation was going on to the disfavor of Japan since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Moreover, the tourism of colony Joseon began to get an impact due to the execution of rationing of gas for automobiles in July, 1940, and what was worse, the US enforcement of oil embargo and “Land Transportation Control” resulted in complete interruption of tourist bus service; finally, in 1944, the US completely suspended traveling and tourism, such as prioritizing the railroad passengers. Conclusively, the execution of the enforcement of the National Mobilization Law in 1938 actually caused the tourist industry of the empire of Japan to wither including colony Joseon.