李陸史의 독립운동 시-공간(1926~1933)과 義烈團 문제 ― 通說의 분석적 재검토를 겸하여 ―

Abstract

This paper is aimed at making an advancement in the overall study of Yi Yuksa(李陸史; hereafter ‘Yuksa’), an all-round intelligentsia and resistance. In that respect, the author re-examines analytically some obscure points among the results of recent studies on Yuksa’s national independence movement (NIM). The common view derived from those results is also critically examined in prospect of more reasonable understanding, which would be linked to a factual reconstitution of the time-space of Yuksa’s NIM. Arguments proceeded through critical review and reinterpretation of various kinds of materials can be summarized as follows: Firstly, it is nearly confirmed that Yuksa went to Peking in July, 1926 and entered the College of Commerce, the University of China in fall of the year, to stay for two semesters till June, 1927, and then returned home about August of the year. Secondly, the existing common opinion that Yuksa attended the Sun Yat-sen University in Kuangchou for one year and that he became then a member of the managing staff of some association there for Korean NIM should be thoroughly re-examined. Judging from the detailed statements of Seo Eungho(徐應鎬), an executive of Ui’yeoldan(義烈團) and of the Associated Comrades for Korean Revolution at Kuangchou(留粤韓國革命同志 會) at the same time, we can not but doubt of accuracy and reliability of the records, which appeared on the student list of the Sun Yat-sen University as well as in the documents made out by the Japanese imperialist governmental authorities, about the name of Yi Hwal(李活) used mostly in 1930s as one of the Yuksa’s pen names. It would be unreasonable to identify recklessly a man with another person solely on the basis of pen name. A comprehensive review of materials available leads us to say that ‘the times in Kuanchou’ for Yuksa never existed. Thirdly, the interrogatory on Yuksa as a suspect of the Case of Nanjing Military Academy in 1934 should be carefully interpreted with a consideration of meanings between the lines. For it is observed and caught up that there were a great deal of camouflaging and deceiving statements in his interrogatory for the purpose of escape from being prisoned and of ensuring the space of domestic activities. In this context, it is presumed that Yuksa left homeland for Peking in spring of 1932 according to a previous contact or conclave with Yun Seju(尹世胄) for the sake of participation in or support of Ui’yeoldan. Knowing belatedly that the headquarters of Ui’yeoldan had moved to Nanjing, Yuksa went immediately to Nanjing and entered voluntarily the Military-Political Academy for Korean Revolution(朝鮮革命軍事政治幹部學 校) founded by Ui’yeoldan. Fourthly and finally, six months spent as a student of the Academy became justly the ‘times in Nanjing’ for Yuksa. During those times, he laid down the ideological base and got the theoretical armament for his own devotion to revolutionary movement. By extension of it, he accepted the programmed National Revolutionary action line of Ui’yeoldan, and became an actual member of it. Consequently and eventually, he was appointed as a domestic agent and secretly dispatched to homeland by Ui’yeoldan.