1905~1906년 서구식 大禮服제도 개정에 나타난 일제의 한국병탄 준비

Abstract

This paper studied on one aspect of the preparation of the Japanese compulsory annexation of Korea through the western-style full dress uniform system of a government official working for the palace and a civil servant which was amended in 1905 and 1906. In order to study their morphological feature, It brought the form of the design arrangement of the top of the dress uniform into comparison, and compared the Korean official uniform system of the government official working for the palace and the civil servant with the Japanese. And It studied the background of the dual system, that is, the civil servant uniform and the government official uniform working for the palace. In summary, the design arrangement of the top of the dress uniform for the civil servant and the government official working for the palace changed covering three stages as follows; The dress uniform for the civil servant which differed from the Japanese one was laid down in the Korean Empire’s own style in April, 1900. And it changed to the Japanese style in January, 1905 and then it changed to the style whose grade was lower than the Japanese one in December, 1906. The dress uniform for the civil servant which was laid down in 1900 applied to the government official working for the palace, and then an opportunity to differentiate the dress uniform of the official for the palace from that of the civil servant was laid, and the official uniform system for the official for the palace different from that of the civil servant was laid down in February, 1906 and its style changed to the style whose grade was lower than the Japanese earlier than that of the civil servant. The full-dress uniform of the high ranking government official appointed by a king symbolized the country or the Imperial Family. Therefore it can be said that Japanese provision of the Korean full-dress uniform whose grade was lower than the Japanese was a part of preparation to realize Japanese imperialism. A dress and its ornament in ancient East Asia were the representative means to show political subordination. Noticing this point, Japanese imperialism provided the rules of the Korean full-dress uniform whose grade was lower than the Japanese. Also it can be said that the duality of the official uniform, that is, the uniform for the civil servant and the official working for the palace, was carried out to reduce the function of the government office for the Imperial Household and weaken the authority of the Emperor. Japanese imperialism thought that as the bulky government office for the Imperial Household was completely divided from the highest administrative organization and its authority and function reduced, the Emperor’s authority would weaken, and this could play the role of the foundation stone for the Japanese annexation of Korea.