1930년대 『동아일보』의 검열 사례 집계와그 의미(1931~1936) -『조선출판경찰월보』, 『일제시대 민족지 압수기사모음』과의교차 비교를 중심으로

Abstract

Since the fall of 2021, I have listed censorship cases through the “Dong-A Ilbo Archive” provided by Naver News Library, taken screenshots of the actual paper, and accumulated them. The primary target was six years from 1931 to 1936, and this list was reinforced by intersecting and comparing it with the 『Joseon Publishing Police’s monthly report』 and 『Collection of confiscated articles of the Japanese colonial period』. This article is a kind of result report on the work, and it is organized in a way that the list of censorship cases (additions) I wrote are compiled by year. Each chapter presented statistics on cases of censorship by year, and described them in a way that intersects and compares them with cases and statistics of the 『Joseon Publishing Police Monthly Report』 and the 『Collection of confiscated articles of Japanese colonial era』. In addition, the censorship characteristics of each period, notable changes in patterns, and censorship cases were also added. The list of censorship cases I wrote is the starting point for approaching the reality of censorship in the 1930s 『Dong-A Ilbo』. Although it was “incomplete,” it was not insufficient to prove that the censorship-related statistics and lists produced by the Governor-General were inaccurate and lacked objectivity. On the other hand, this also raised questions about the existing reading law of the media in the 1930s. After looking at the pages of 464 deleted articles (“bad articles”), it is difficult to readily agree with the claim that the 1930s was the “newspaper product era” and that the 『Dong-A Ilbo』 actually prepared for “pro-Japanese” amid the tendency to “commercialize” and “institutionalize.”