식민지 조선에서 죽음을 기억하는 두 가지 방식

Abstract

This paper focused on the places of the dead at Yong-san on various factors that influenced the perception of death in the Japanese colonial period. The places of the dead at Yong-san were treated in contrast according to the circumstances. The Itaewon cemetery, where “the rootless” or “the poor” were buried, had to be pushed out with the expansion of the city. The main force to push out the cemetery was “money” after all, but the perception of colonizers of Korean’s the places of the dead also affected. In the city, the places of the dead had to be much further away from the living. What used to be the right distance is that it is no longer affordable in the colonial city. Naturally, most of the dead that were expelled were Korean, and the people who were going to live there were Japanese. The one-sided imbalance of power in the colony was the condition under which the expulsion of the dead could be carried out more blatantly and quickly. However, not all the places of the dead at Yong-san were pushed out. Under the totalitarian regime, the war-related places of the dead became the object of worship. When the Japanese army first settled at Yong-san, the military unit had to exist as an independent society, so an army cemetery was also provided as one of the essential facilities. When the war began in earnest, the army cemetery became a place of worship, and even if there were no bodies or remains of the dead, it has become a place to confirm “the subjects”. This contradictory phenomenon, which ignored or treated the places of the dead as worthless or taboo, while state-related deaths were considered to be subject of worship, can be seen as a common phenomenon in modern cities. This “modern” phenomenon could have been more blatant in the colonial society and Yong-san. The history of the places of dead at Yong-san shows that the city’s places of the dead that reflect the politics of the people who live there, and the way in which the dead are remembered is strongly influenced by the politics.