해방 전ㆍ후 월남 개신교 정치인, 김병연의 애국ㆍ애족운동 연구

Abstract

This paper focuses on Kim, Byung-Yeon who was the closest staff and right-hand man of Cho, Man-Sik who was the one of Protestant politicians among those who fled to South Korea in the area of Liberation. The academic value of this study is as follows. Firstly, this is to study people who have simultaneously worked on the ideas and methods of two representative leaders(Ahn, Chang-ho and Cho, Man-Sik) who differed in their ways in the national movement and the independence movement around the time of liberation. In the fact that Dr. Kim, Byung-Yeon had succeeded two leaders whose way of the patriotism movement were different, and had reached the point of coexistence in the national movement, this research would be meaningful, and it can present another solution for understanding the national movement around the time of liberation. Secondly, most of the existing researches have described that the Protestants politicians who came from the North are the strong anti-communists and also the very subject group who have fixed the division of the South and the North, and at the same time, the people of pro-American and pro-Rhee, Seung-Man, so that they favored the politics. However, when I examined Dr. Kim, Byung-Yeon carefully, it is right to say he was a strong anti-communist, but he was not a pro-American or a pro-Rhee. Kim, Byung-Yeon expressed his moderate stance on US-ROK relations and mentioned both of USA and Soviet are responsible for the division of the Korean peninsula. In addition, even though he served as a deputy secretary general in the early government of Rhee, Seung-Man and served as a governor of PyongAn Province for five years, he did not hesitate to point out the wrong doings from the government of Rhee. Therefore, this paper provides a necessity to reconsider the existing evaluation about Protestant politicians who came from the North. Thirdly, the view of Kim, Byeong-Yeon about North Korea and Unification gives us many lessons for this age. He called for unification through international cooperation beyond autonomous unification, and insisted on the legitimacy of unification in terms of 'justice' and 'truth'. In addition, he emphasized the accumulation of power through internal solidarity as the first task of unification. Thus, Kim, Byung-Yeon's unification view suggests the right direction for the establishment of peace and unification discourse in this era.