1910-30년대 조선총독부의 전력정책과 식민지 기술관료들의 조선개발 인식

Abstract

This paper explores the electricity policy of the Government-general of Korea, which was one of the most important component of the electric power system becoming indigenous. The introduction of the electricity industry in Korea took place very quickly during the Korean Empire, but full-fledged growth could not begin until the colonial period. At that time, the government-General of Korea, which is responsible for fostering and managing the electricity industry of the colonial Korea, did not transplant Japan's electricity technology or Electricity policy. Rather, it used the colonial Korea as a venue for policy experiments for address the problems facing Japan's electricity industry. The principle that a single region is one electric company, the initial power policy of the Governor-General of Korea, was derived from the diagnosis that the free market put Japan's power industry into excessive competition and overlapping investment. However, the half-baked policy experiments, could not prevent the monopoly’s closure, and in the end had to be revised in the face of resistance from citizens. In setting up a new electricity control policy, technocrats submitted a huge package of "super-electric power links," which had never been attempted in Japan. They considered the colonial Korea to be still blank, unlike Japan, which has already complicated its industrial structure. So they regarded the colonial Korea as a place to realize an ideal technology society, ‘high modernism’ by efficiently developing it through the powerful control of the colonial Government. But colonial Korea was not in a blank state, and the complex interests that had been deleted from their "reasonable" designs frustrated their designs.