일제강점기 여수수산학교의 수산교육

Abstract

This paper studies the fisheries education of the Yeosu Public Fisheries School during the time when Korea was under Japanese rule. It will determine how new students were selected through entrance exams, the hiring of faculty members, its curriculum, experiments performed by students, and students' activities after graduation. Those who managed to graduate their elementary school were qualified to take the entrance exams. The average age of new students admitted were nineteen. Most of them came from Jeonnam Province. There were about six full-time and ten part-time teachers. Many of them were Japanese. Seventy percent of the curriculum was related to general arts , while the other thirty percent consisted of subjects that were related to fisheries. Facilities such as classrooms, laboratories and equipment were all built in 1927. Students were able to perform many fisheries experiments, as well as seafood manufacturing, fish farming, etc, at the well-furnished labs with the help of skilled teachers. Students who graduated from Yeosu Public Fisheries School, generally entered good companies. After graduation most of the students got jobs related to the fisheries industry or went on to study further in higher leveled schools. The Yeosu Public Fisheries School contributed to the development of the modern Korean fisheries education. The school managed to improve the fisheries technology and train top-level professionals in the field.