日帝 强占期 金玉均 推仰과 偉人敎育 = The Campaign for Venerating Kim, Ok-kyun(金玉均) and the Historical Figures teaching During the Japanese Colonial Rule Period

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper intends to analyze the campaign for respecting Kim, Ok-kyun(金玉均) and the historical figures teaching during the Japanese colonial rule period. These activities show the perfect type of the historical figure whom leaders in modern Korean society, especially intellectuals involved in educational policy making, regarded as "the great man" at that time.
The main bodies of these activities are the moderate nationalists who intended to realize the independence under the name of power establishment movement and Asianists who contended that Japan, Korea and China unite under the hegemony of the Japanese Empire reign. The former justified the westernization and the power establishment movement by regarding Kim, Ok-kyun as the pioneer of modernization, the latter beatified the invasion and rule of Japanese imperialists by regarding him as the hero who had made a martyr of oneself to maintain peace of East Asia. And they published the most of newspapers, magazines, novels and biographies to accomplish these objects. But this campaign was based on the heroism and elitism. As a result, some of people began considering Kim, Ok-kyun a pioneer, not a traitor. Furthermore, by making the Korean people consider him one of main Asianists, Japanese imperialists intended to set them on a war footing.
After the Liberation, as the westernization was still the supreme goal in our society, Kim, Ok-kyun also was regarded as the great pioneer and patriot, not the pro-Japanese. Nowadays the understanding of Kim, Ok-kyun is based on the veneration of the moderate nationalists.
But my point is not whether Kim, Ok-kyun is pro-Japanese or patriot, but relation between his life and our modern times. Namely, when we write the biography of a great mind or explain the life of a great man as history education scholars and history teachers, we need reconsider several factors that have obstructed our understanding of historical figures. Therefore, we need grade character on the historical conditions and the moral standards, not on the sectarian prejudice. Also we need participate in popular education and work out a teaching method when we consider the biographies of a great mind the desirable books for the mass.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 序言
• 2. 金玉均 在認識과 偉人敎育
• 3. 金玉均 思想 唱導運動과 大東亞共榮圈論
• 4. 結語
• Abstract