강원도의 근현대: 분단, 오지 그리고 청정

Abstract

This paper begins with the question of how localities can be included in the survey of modern everyday life culture. In Gangwon Province, the modern era has come to be embodied with colonialism and division, and it has also exploded into the daily lives of local communities and residents. With liberation, the Korean Peninsula is divided into two regions, and the Cold War ideology is overlaid on the experiences of world modern colonial system as a colony. In the era of inter-Korean division, Gangwon-do was created as a military land, a civilian line, and a displaced village, and became the most important space of the division system. The division has become a framework that governs Korea’s politics, economy, social culture, and everyday life of individuals, and has determined the direction of modernization. In the 1960s, with the introduction of the Park Chung Hee government, the development model expressed as the industrial modernization created the myth that is the miracle of the Han River. All human and material resources in Korea were mobilized to modernize the country, and depending on the degree of contribution its status was determined in the Korean development model. Gangwon-do participated in the modernization of the country as an industrial warrior who produces industrial energy coal, on the other hand, as a pre-modern man who cultivated farming with a plow which is a symbol of ‘traditional production culture.’ In the 1990s, growth through modernization of the country and stable myths of the future shook, and everything became uncertain. The mountain village is trying to make a new change to the mountain cultural experience tourism village by commercializing its surrounding nature and life in the name of ‘clean’ and ‘pure’ and the coal mine village to the gambling industry. Gangwon-do, under the planning of 'divided modernity,' has a long and strong experience of colonization, particularly division, depending on the natural geography, political economy, socio-cultural status of Gangwon Province, and forms a locality and daily culture of Gangwon-do. In short, the non-synchronism of pre-modern, modern, and post-modern are sometimes expressed as synchronism, creating the local character of Gangwon-do. The understanding of modern and contemporary life culture comes from the reflection of the land and its area where modern times have been crossed and normalized.