근대 학문 발달과 신문사장판(新文社藏板) 『최신실용 조선백과대전』의 의미

Abstract

This article aims to examine the meaning of encyclopedia compilation based on modern academic formation. The encyclopedia is a type of dictionary that emerged from similar circumstances in Japan, China, and Korea in modern East Asia, as well as in the Western philosophy of enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries. In other words, the encyclopedia is a dictionary with a strong purpose to collect and classify knowledge at the practical level and to distribute it to the public. The word "BAEK(百, Hundred)" in "BAEKHAK(百學)" means "all", and "BAEKHAK(百學)" or "BAEKGWA(百科)" refers to knowledge of all existing fields. From this point of view, there was a great interest in encyclopedia compilations in modern Japan and China, and in modern Korea, interest in terminology or encyclopedias has increased since the 1900s. The CHOISIN SILYOUNG JOSEON BAEKGWADAEJEON(最新實用朝鮮百科大典), published by the SINMUNSA(1916), was compiled in this trend, and the intention was to disseminate knowledge based on the latest and practical knowledge. Nevertheless, this dictionary is a dictionary compiled by Japanese people in the colonial period and has some limitations in terms of Korean modern knowledge dissemination and Korean language research. The most representative of them was that Japanese people were the colonists during the period of knowledge collection and classification. Therefore, most of the listed knowledge was colonial domination-oriented knowledge (the governing bodies and laws and regulations), and many vocabulary materials such as letters and new words were also Chinese character-oriented. Idioms or new words were not used. Therefore, many expressions appearing in this dictionary can be confirmed that many are not used well at present. Even with these limitations, this dictionary can be used as an important data for understanding the characteristics of Korean modern scholarship and the history of Korean linguistics.