근대적 魚市場의 형성과정에 관한 연구

Abstract

The fishery business does not have much choice but to aim at selling, for self-consumption is impossible. The distribution process of fishery products was dependent upon the characteristics of production and consumption. Thus there was a need to have a well systemized circulation mechanism. In order to modernize fishery production, its circulation process must also develop. Since fishery products can decay easily, it should be sold quickly. This made the circulation process of fishery products more dependent upon its “Gaekju”. Around 1910 when production was isolated and separated, and its scale was very small, the fisherman had no direct power over the circulation process. Thus, in those days the fishery business became the typical one of businesses which “pre-commercial capital” favored most. As a pre-commercial capitalist, Gaekju built up its own bases in the fishery industry and continuously exploited the fishermen during the circulation process. At the beginning of the 20th century, Japanese fishermen, who traveled back and forth of the coasts of Korean and Japan, started to emerge. As the Japanese colonization continued, in order to have more control over fishery products, modernization of the circulation market started. A new fishery market was born. The modernized fishery market began at 1889, and around the 1920s it spread to 30 different places. In conclusion, Korea’s modern fishery market had a bad start which involved the institutionalization of colonial exploitation.