1930년대 중후반 강원도 개발계획과 삼척지역의 식민지 공업화

Abstract

This study deals with the development process, its characteristics and limitations of Gangwon-do focusing on the Samcheok area from the mid-late 1930s to the early 1940s. Until the first half of the 1930s, Gangwon-do had ample room for development in forestry, fishery, and mining, but was recognized as an unexploited space due to transportation and geographical limitations. Then, after the mid-1930s, the possibility of development in Gangwon-do expanded in the policy of promoting agriculture and industry by the Japanese Government-General of Korea along with improving transportation infrastructure. At the same time, the Gangwon-do Development Committee was held in 1937, when Japan Empire demanded resource development and productivity expansion after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. The Gangwon-do Development Committee was a meeting where it was declared that Gangwon-do could no longer remain an unexploited area, and it was a space where various interests of the people who would promote development overlapped.
 Samcheok was the area where Gangwon-do’s development plan was most symbolically revealed. With the promotion of anthracite mining, chemical and cement industries, the industrialization of the Samcheok area was accelerated. However, the development and industrialization of the Gangwon region, centered on Samcheok, was a development from above centered on the empire and capital, revealing the limits of development that did not consider the lives of local residents.