著者

朴 多情

出版者

東京大学大学院情報学環

雑誌

情報学研究 : 学環 : 東京大学大学院情報学環紀要 (ISSN:1880697X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.95, pp.29-44, 2018-10-31

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This paper explores the expansions and limitations of popular culture consumption in colonial Korea within the wider East Asian regional system/context during the 1930s by examining Yadam, a modern Korean narrative and performance genre. This research challenges previous academic interpretations that focus on domestic popular culture consumption in the colonial period within the boundaries of the nation state. While existing perspectives emphasize a short but "splendid" flourishing of modernity during the 1930s that was subsequently replaced by a colonial period of cultural stifling during the wartime of the 1940s, this research explores the previously excluded transnational spread of' Chosun-esque(Korean)' popular culture by adopting the colonial modernity research arguments regarding the periodic coexistence of modernity and coloniality. Magazine and newspaper articles about Baeknam Yun's Yadam provincial performances as well as internal publications of the Japanese Government General of Korea during the 1930s were analyzed to establish a regional context of the Yadam market expansion beyond the Korean peninsula to Manchuria. The research reveals how the consumption market spread with Chosun farmers emigrating to Manchuria in order to escape impoverished depression era rural Chosun, which was a way for the Japanese Government General to alleviate surplus labor and rural poverty, while it was in the interest of the Japanese government to prevent such influx to mainland Japan, and also served demand for farming labor in Manchukoku. In conclusion, by examining the expansion of the Yadam market situated in the solidifying East Asian regional system during the 1930s, the research traces how people moved and lived across and within the imperial confines of colonial Chosun whilst the formation of an unequal regional market economy.査読研究論文Refereed Papers