다카하마 교시(高浜虛子)가 만났던 조선인 - <조선(朝鮮)>에 나타난 식민지 지식인의 면영

Abstract

This paper aims to explain who was the real model of Hong Won Sun(洪元善) as a patriot of ruined country and of Kim Seong Ryong(金成龍) as a advocate of pro-Japanese group in the novel “Chosen(1912)” written by Takahama Kyoshi(高濱虛子) after his trip to Chosen in 1911 twice, immediately after the Japanese colonial rule. In short, I could find that the model of Hong Won Sun(洪元善) was Chung Un Bok(鄭雲復), conidering the fact that they all met with GyungsungIlbo(京城日報) reporters together when Kyoshi came in Chosen, written in Tokutomi Soho(徳富蘇峰)’s diary, named as “ChosenSodeukbu(朝鮮所得簿).” Chung Un Bok(鄭雲復), who had left to and studied in Japan earlier, accompanied Lee Jun Yong(李埈鎔), a member of the royal family exiled in Japan around 1897, to England in a year, and returned in 1899 alone, but he was imprisoned on a charge of treason during six years. Later, he became a competent speaker by holding a speech session for the Enlightenment with Ogaki Takeo(大垣丈夫), working as counselor of ‘Korean Association of Self Governing Province(大韓自强會)’. At the same time, as a journalist he took over “Newspaper of Empire(帝國新聞)” and tried to make negotiations with Ito Hirobumi(伊藤博文) to turn it into the bulletin of ‘Department of Resident-General(統監府)’. He, however, failed in the end. In despair, he changed his political course to be friendly to pro-Japanese group. Since Japanese colonial rule, he worked for Tokutomi Soho(徳富蘇峰), taking major part in editiong “Maeil Shinbo(每日申報)” for him. Meanwhile, he seems to have been accompanied by Takahama Kiyoshi, who traveled at the request of Yoshino Dajaemon(吉野太左 衛門), then president of “GyeongseongIlbo(京城日報)”. As such, after checking real model of Korean male intellectuals drawn in the novel “Chosen(1912)”, we can undestand the political situation not as the ‘relief(浮彫)’ in the novel, but as a ‘three-dimensional object(立體)’. In particular, Chung Un Bok(鄭雲復), who joined the ‘Korean Self-Governing Council(大韓自强會)’ and the ‘North-West Society(西北學會)’ and struggled with the ‘Ilchinhoe(一進會)’ just before the Japanese colonial rule, has become a central figure in the “GyeongseongIlbo(京城日報)” after that, which the process of change is revealed well in the novel. This reveals the bare face of the colonial intellectuals who are living the century of violence called imperialism, and provides various perspectives on it.