소파 방정환의 일본 유학 시기 활동

Abstract

Bang Jung-Hwan was active in Japan for three years from September 1920 to September 1923. Until now, Bang Jung-Hwan’s activities in Japan were known as studying abroad at Toyo University, but this was a part of Bang Jung-Hwan’s three-year life in Japan. Bang Jung-Hwan basically worked as a Tokyo correspondent for Gaebyeoksa. Through his three years of living in Japan, he published 11 articles in ‘Gaebyeok’, 21 times under his real name and pseudonym. Bang Jung-Hwan, who was a central member of the founding of the Chondogyo Youth Association, gathered Chondoist international students right after arriving in Tokyo to organize the Tokyo Branch of the Chondogyo Youth Association and served as the first branch president. He held preparatory meetings and religious events for the Tokyo Branch of the Chondogyo Youth Association at his boarding house, Gyerimsa, and conducted the activities of the Tokyo Branch from February 1921. Bang Jung-Hwan resigned from the branch president in 1923 to focus on the children’s movement. In the second half of 1920, while attending the Donggyeong Language Training School, Bang Jung-Hwan tried to formally enter a Japanese university, but was rescued for 20 days due to Min Won-Sik’s murder case and was investigated. In the aftermath of this, Bang Jung-Hwan entered the Department of Culture at Toyo University as an audit student and became close with Korean international students. took the lead As Bang Jung-Hwan dropped out of Toyo University on March 30, 1920, his study abroad life was one year. His reason for dropping out was to devote himself to the children’s movement. Bang jung-hwan was interested in children’s literature in Japan and studied Japanese children’s literature and world fairy tales at the time. As a result, at the end of 1921, he published ‘The Gift of Love’, which was adapted by selecting fairy tales from around the world, and was published in Korea in June 1922. The publication of ‘The Gift of Love’ made Bang Jung-Hwan recognized as a children’s writer. Bang Jung-Hwan devoted himself to the children’s movement together with Kim Ki-Jeon, centering on the Chondogyo Youth Association, which was spun off from the Chondogyo Youth Association on May 1, 1921. In addition, while in Japan, Bang Jung-Hwan organized the Saekdong Association to foster talents who could support the children’s movement. Bang Jung-Hwan popularized the term children and established Children’s Day, leading the children’s movement. In 1923, he devoted himself to the publication of ‘Children’ and the activities of the Saekdonghoe. Bang Jung-Hwan settled in Korea in the wake of the Great Kwandong Earthquake on September 1, 1923. He was active in Japan for three years, but he was active in Korea for about one-third (12 months). For three years, Bang Jung-Hwan traveled back and forth between Korea and Japan, serving as a correspondent for Gaebyeoksa, as the branch president of the Chondogyo Tokyo branch, and as the core of the Chondogyo Youth Association, he founded Children’s Day and ‘Children’ and worked as a member of the Saekdonghoe. It can be said that Bang Jung-Hwan’s greatest achievement is that he established the direction of his activities as a children’s movement through his Japanese career.