러일전쟁 직후 일본인 지주의 한국 진출 ―『군산농사월보』의 검토를 중심으로 ―

Abstract

In this thesis, I examined the characteristics of Japanese landowner’s land accumulating process through inspecting the establishing process, concrete activities, and dissolution process of Kunsan agricultural union. Focusing on 『Kunsan’s Agriculture Monthly Report』 which Kunsan agricultural union published, I analyzed the land possessing practice of that period, the problem of double purchase, the sight Korean peasants looked at the Japanese land owner, Japanese land owner’s evaluation about Korean agricultural method, etc. Beyond traditional point of view like Japanese landowners’ illegal agricultural invasion, I would like to confirm the concrete procedure of Japanese landowner’s land accumulation and tenant land management based on rascal economic interest. Japanese landowner’s land accumulating process was carried out in a national, regional and civilian dimension and through illegal purchasing method to the cultivated land and uncultivated land. The landowners of cultivated lands organized Kunsan agricultural union for the purpose of preventing double purchase systematically and securing the rights of land possession and mortgages. To prevent the land double purchase, Kunsan agricultural union confirmed the investing capacity of union member before land purchase, decided the coverage of land purchase and showed the buyable land state to union member. Since land ownership restrictions have been abolished, Kunsan agricultural union was transformed the role of land registry office into the organization for information exchange of farm managing and for co-responding against tenant disputes. The whole process from the establishment to the dissipation of Kunsan agricultural union showed the land accumulating process of Japanese landowners and the transition of tenant farm management most clearly. In conclusion, Kunsan agricultural union was a desperate method to evade Koreans’ preventing action against land purchase, and to carry out stable and reasonable land purchase and farm management.