초기 독립운동과 민주공화주의의 태동

Abstract

In the ending days of Joseon and also during the Daehan Empire period, conceptslike democracy, republic and democratic republicanism were all perceived asconcepts referring to political states. Witnessing the fall of the entire country nowas a reality more than imminent, in the minds of the Korean people all these conceptsslowly evolved from ideology to conviction. Liberation fighters who were strugglingto found a provisional government, and not to mention all Korean people who justlost their homeland, dreamt of establishing an independent country based upondemocratic republicanism. The result of such sincere and devoted efforts was noother than the foundation of the Korean Provisional Government, and the birthof a Korean Democratic Republican state. Examined in this article is how conceptslike democracy, republic and democratic republicanism spreaded throughout theKorean peninsula in the transitional period between the Joseon dynasty and theDaehan Empire, as well as how the dream for a Republican country grew, andhow the efforts to found the Korean Provisional Government employed DemocraticRepublicanism as its ideological flag. Also contemplated upon here is the meaningof the Korean Provisional Government and the Democratic Republicanism, whichwere all accomplished by the efforts of the Korean people displayed in the earlyphase of the Korean Liberation movement.