한국 근대유산의 인식 및 활용을 둘러싼 입장과 쟁점

Abstract

In general, in post-colonial countries, discord exists over the evaluation and recognition of the value of early-modern heritage, and the same is true of the Japanese Incheon Army Arsenal(JIAA) under the Japanese colonialism in Korea. The JIAA was established in 1941 as one of the 8 largest arsenals of the Japanese imperialist and one of the two arsenals built outside the mainland, which were built for the design, production, and storage of weapons during the Japanese colonial period. The JIAA was located on a vast flat area around Sangok-ri[山谷 里] with good access to Bupyeong Station of the Gyeongin Railway. The JIAA formed a large-scale munitions industrial complex with a number of companies connected in forward-and-backward linkage, and on a national scale, it was one of the modern urban zoning planned in the Bupyeong area as part of the Gyeongin Regional City Plan[京仁市街計劃]. Today, the remnants of the JIAA remain in the Bupyeong-gu area of Incheon Metropolitan City, and recently there are often conflicts with the difference in position between the central and local governments, civic groups, etc. over the value evaluation and preservation of the landscape elements of the remains of the JIAA. One of the important prerequisites to resolve this difference in position and conflict is the mobilization of concepts and theories. Since the relic landscape of the JIAA is a colonial heritage, a modern industrial heritage, and a war heritage at the same time, they should be viewed in multiple heritage categories. And on the one hand, it is necessary to recognize the various zoning and landscape elements diachronically and comprehensively from the viewpoint of the formation and evolution of the early-modern urban landscape that caused the contrast with the traditional urban landscape and the restructuring of national land space. An approach based on these concepts and theories is critical in recognition of values, orientation of utilization, and application as a world heritage. From the point of view of approaching colonial early-modern heritage, especially industrial heritage, in post-colonial countries, it is necessary to be vigilant not to simply borrow from Western countries or Japan, which were former imperialists.