해방직후 좌⋅우파 계열 무도인들의 치안 활동

Abstract

This study set out to investigate the process of forming a public order guard, doing activities to keep public order, and being dissolved among right and left wing martial arts practitioners right after Korea's liberation based on literature study. Conducted from this perspective, the study generated the following results: first, it was center-left martial arts practitioners that took the lead in keeping public order in Joseon right after its liberation. They formed a public order guard for the foundation of a state, taking charge in public order in Joseon right after its liberation. The preparation committee for the foundation of a state was dominated by the communist members, and the U. S. military government in Joseon considered the guard's activities to keep public order to be illegal. In the end, the guard was dissolved. Secondly, the right wing force tried to include Kang Nak-won, a fencing instructor at YMCA, in the public order guard for the foundation of a state right after Joseon's liberation. Kang also wanted to join the guard, forming a right wing public order group called Boandae. Jang Gwon, a center-left martial arts practitioner, was strongly against it, which made it impossible for the right wing force to join the guard. These conflicts between right and left wing martial artist became one of the important causes for the dissolution of the preparation committee for the foundation of a state. Finally, Kang Nak-won, who was at the center of the right wing force to keep public order after the U. S. military government was established in Joseon, was active as an executive member of the Great Korean Youth Corps, a political association formed by Syngman Rhee and took the lead in the eradication of the left wing force. He was, however, abducted to North Korea during the Korean War, which ended the activities to keep public order among the right wing martial arts practitioners that followed him. Jang Gwon, who was at the center of center-left force to keep public order, failed to make a candidate for the direction position of public affairs. He then formed a social democratic party himself and entered the political arena. He decided to defect to North Korea in 1948, which made the martial arts practitioners following him denounced as the left wing and put them in trouble.