식민지기 동래지역 회동 농촌진흥청년회의 결성과 그 추이 - 향반 촌락의 사례 연구 -

Abstract

This research examines the background of the formation and activites of the Rural Revitalization Youth Association of Hoedong, which is a colonial rural village of Dongnae’s local elite. The Rural Revitalization Youth Association of Hoedong. organized in 1924 to promote the poor rural areas, continued enlightenment activites which Youth Association in the 1920s formed. After year of 1932, while Government-General of Korea’s rural revitalization movement was undergoing, the Rural Revitalization Youth Association changed its focus to agricultural activites. The background of The Rural Revitalization Youth Association’s executives was came from the descendants of local elite families of Hoedong such as Gimhae kim, Yeosan Song, and Milseong Park clans. These families show continuity of ruling village association, especially Gimhae Kim clan. The activities of the Rural Revitalization Youth Association can be summarized into regulations, funeral protocols, and loans. The Rural Revitalization Youth Association is associate with rural revitalization movement, but it doesn’t show specific activities related to agriculture. What can be shown is the Rural Revitalization Youth Association made efforts to maintain order through ban thefts, poaching and gambiling. And funeral protocols were the most significant activites, showing that the activities were shifted from Dongjung to The Rural Revitalization Youth association. Also, the Rural Revitalization Youth Association underwent loan activites, seperated with village association(洞中). Thus, the Rural Revitalization Youth Association showed dynamism similar to the Youth Association in the county seats during early stages, in social change of modern era, however, this dynamism gradually reduced. Rather than focusing on enlightment activites, the Rural Revitalization Youth Association tend to maintain the order of the village. A few member such as Youngchan Kim, who studied abroad at Japanese sericulture school and individually worked in Dongane county, was existed. But they couldn’t go through public of modernity like establishment of cooperative organization. It seems that heritages of the local elite village formed through the Korean Surname-Village(同姓村落) played role in these phenomenon. In that case, this research goes beyond just single case by suggesting this was the general figure of typical local elite village. In addition, regarding there is a few of specific records of indicating the truth of Rural Revitalization Youth Association, the formation of the Rural Revitalization Youth Association in Hoedong can be very effective case research by providing specific knowledge of formation and activites of Rural Revitalization Youth Association as unit of village