韓國制憲國會의 政治勢力 形成에 관한 연구: 일제 식민지 시기의 社會勢力과의 연관성을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper intends to make a actual research on which interrelations the social forces of Japanese colonial period had with the formation of political forces in Korean Constitutional Assembly. For this purpose, I analyzed many congressmen' careers. Especially, I examined into those of pro-Japanese congressmen, who made their careers in rural social organization in the reign of Japanese Imperialism. In the late 19th century, most of Asian countries had confronted with two critical historical tasks, the political independence and modernization. But Chosn Dynasty failed to response to those challenges. At last, she fell to Japanese colony. For efficient rule, the colonial authority trained 'leading figures', who were the leading members in Rural Promotion Association and various cooperations, the collaborator of Japanese colonial rule. In the new Korea, therefore, the first political task was to deny all colonial inheritance . That was essential for the real independence. But the pro-Japanese political forces exerted considerable influences on the founding of new nation's political forces. That resulted from the historical condition that the political subjects for independence and modernization was different from each other. The solution of this contradiction was the primary task of modern Korean politics.