일제하 수리조합사업과 일본인 토목청부업자

Abstract

There are two problems of advanced research regarding irrigation association business. Firstly, how Korean landowners of irrigation association business were collapsed, and how Japanese landowners increased landholding. And secondly, rice price was a downward trend for a long time since 1920 and why Japanese landowners tried to repel Korean landowners and conducted irrigation association business. A keyword for these two problems can be an existence of Japanese engineering contractors and furthermore, a back-scratching alliance with Japanese landowners. It can be thought that Japanese engineering contractors used irrigation association business in order to increase public works. People who will benefit the most from irrigation association business are Japanese contractor who took sub contracts, and they can only start the construction when an irrigation association is established after agreeing with landowner. It can be expected that instead of distributing benefits of public works to public works, Japanese contractors asked for a favor to Japanese landowner to make irrigation association. As one of the circumstantial evidences, there was an expense called preliminary expense on irrigation association business financial report. preliminary expense refers to an expense to persuade landowner when making irrigation association, and it is strange to persuade landowner with money rather than deciding irrigation association business objectively. It can be simply guessed that Japanese contractors who will benefit the most from sub-contracts of public works persuaded Japanese landowner to proceed irrigation association business by force. Also, for Bupyeong irrigation association which made some problems including fraudulent work, president of contractor, Haesa Hwang>Kokai-sha who received sub contract of public works with the head of irrigation association and Matsuyama Chunejilo were the same person. Considering this, purpose of irrigation association business which is an increase of agricultural production was secondary, and the real hidden purpose for Japanese contractor was to distribute the benefits with Japanese landowner by increasing profit through public works. Looking at this macroscopically, it can be said that the capital of Korean landowner was converted to the capital of Japanese contractor with Japanese landowner. Thus, it is thought that the reason that land holding of Japanese landowner was increased and Japanese landowner conducted irrigation association business was to seek benefits.