전석담 역사학의 숨은 ‘발원지’와 해방 전후 한국 사회경제사 인식 - 도호쿠제국대학 경제학과와 ‘시대구분론’을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Jeon Seok-dam(全錫淡, 1916~?) was 22 years younger than Paek Nam-wun, and was a young new-generation scholar in colonized Joseon, engaged in studies of Marxist Socio-Economic History. In prior studies, the position he had over the issue of dividing periods, which distinguished himself from supporters of the usual ‘Five-Stage Scheme of Periodization’ theory, has always been considered to be unique. Examined in this article is how he shaped his own such stance through all the schools he attended. Instead of the Keijo Imperial University, he went to the high school in Japan and then attended the Dohoku Imperial University’s Department of Economy. He was the only Joseon graduate of this department. But when tension surrounding the department was heightened due to the Scandal of ‘Professors for the Peasants and Laborers Group’ that broke out in 1938, he moved over to the Post-graduate school of the Keijo Imperial University.<BR> His teacher Nakamura Kichiji(中村吉治) studied the history of Agricultural policies and Rural Agricultural society in the Early Edo Bakuhu period, with a focus on the Hopae(Household tablet) institution and the Oga Jaktong(Five-Household Registry) system. His other teacher, Uno Kozo(宇野弘蔵), presented the concept of ‘Underdeveloped partner in a relationship(後進),’ and tried to explain the problems that surfaced in Japan’s modernization process as a late starter, while attempting to overcome the existing view -a rather polarized one- which had only engaged in examining single states.<BR> Influenced and inspired by his own predecessors, Jeon Seok-dam argued that the Hopae institution and the Oga Jaktong system of the early Joseon period indeed had the effect of restraining the peasantry population. He also viewed that Japan succeeded in modernizing itself even with the handicap of starting late, while Joseon as a colonized country was eventually included in the Capitalist world order but still had a pretty underdeveloped industrial structure. However, he never directly quoted his teachers at Dohoku, and placed a bigger emphasis on the Capitalist nature of colonized Joseon only after finally landing in North Korea himself. His such stance seems to have been the result of adjusting to the academic atmosphere of the two Koreas, which may have forced him to embrace his mentors’ methodology yet (conveniently) omit proper recognition of them.