‘광주학생운동’ 관련명칭의 용례와 의미

Abstract

In the article I examined the example of the names connected with “Gwangjoo Student Movement” during Japanese colonial rule of Korea. First of all, search results of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” and “Gwnagjoo Student incident” in the representative Web sites related to the history of Korea’s independence movement are as follows; In search results, it can be thought that there are not a few examples of “Gwangjoo Student Movement”, however, this is because the term was written as “Gwangjoo Student Movement” in the index when a data base was compiled. According to research up to now, there is no example of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” in domestic materials during Japanese colonial rule of Korea. Also there is no name of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” in newspapers or manifestos in Korea or Japanese reports and the name of “Gwangjoo Student Incident” accounts for the vast majority, however, most of them indicate the Student Movement in Gwangjoo which happened in November, 1929. For example, when the movement happened in Mokpo, it was called “Mokpo Student Movement” and when it happened in Gyeongseong, it was called “Gyeongseong Student Movement”. And then the expression of “Student Hurrah Incident”, “Student Hurrah Movement” and “Korean Student Movement” gradually occupies the majority. That is, in the change of the related name, we can see that this movement gradually developed into a nationwide movement. The name of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” appeared from an early stage in materials which were produced in China where the independence movement actively progressed and the term of “Domestic Student Movement” occupied the mainstream in the United States. This suggests that Korean independence fighters in China recognized it was not a simple local movement but a nationwide one. Koreans in the United States called it a local movement and named it “Domestic Student Movement” instead of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” or a nationwide name, that is, “Joseon Student Movement.” As I mentioned, it is difficult to find out the example of the term of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” in Japanese materials. There the term of “Gwangjoo(Student) Incident” accounts for the vast majority and the expression of a disturbance or a rash behavior incident appears frequently. And gradually the expression of “Student Hurrah Incident” and “Student Movement in Korea” appears more and more. The side of Japanese imperialism came to recognize that a trivial incident grew into a hurrah movement at a front. That is, as time went by, the expression of not “local” but “nationwide” and “hurrah” like “Joseon”, “front” and “domestic” as frequently as “Gwangjoo” started to be added. This shows the spread of “Gwangjoo Student Movement” and its nature development.