보건 운동가로서 춘곡 양봉근의 생애

Abstract

YANG Bong-keun (1897-1982) had lived as a medical doctor and a social and public health reformer during the turbulent period of the opening of the port to the western society　occupation by and liberation from Japan　and the partition of the Korean Peninsular　 He actively participated in the March First Movement　Shinganhoe　and other activities for Korea’s liberation from Japan　 He also founded Bogunwoondongsa　an organization for public health movement for Korean people and published Bogeunwoondong　a magazine for introducing and educating new ideas and knowledge of health for Korean people　 After the defeat of Japan in the World War II　he worked for the protection and repatriation of Korean residents in the Manjoo area as a head of policy division of the Northeastern office of the Korean Provisional Government　 He also participated in the foundation of Yanbian Hospital and medical school for Korean-Chinese in China　 His holistic approach of health and public health movement　accentuation of preventive medicine and a body under his/her own will　public health movement as a part of everyday life movement　and minjoong oriented humanism were closely linked with the idea of social medicine that originated from the European society in the 19th century　 Those are also valuable ideas to be considered and implemented in this time　 Moreover　his effort of health for Korean people on the way of modernization and liberation of Korea provides an example of being a respectable health reformer and pioneer of social medicine