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Depiction of Korea in Pre-Modern Japanese language Textbooks of Japan (근대시기 일본의 국어과(國語科) 교과서에 나타난 한국)

  • Park, So-Young;Jeong, Jae-Yun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.458-466
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    • 2015

  • This article aims at examining Japanese recognition of Korea through analyzing the Japanese language textbooks of Japan, in order to find how Japanese people perceived Korea in the first half of the 20th century. I explored descriptions related to Korea in the Japanese language textbooks published in the 1st curriculum (1904) to the 5th curriculum (1945). In this period, the Japanese language textbooks were serving in allowing Korea to be associated Queen Jin Goo and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Korean custom and Korean landscape of Seoul and rural area. They designated Korea was a small and weak country through the stories of Queen Jin Goo and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Although they introduced Korean floor heating system, Korean costume, and Korean ritual, they reinforced Korea was a backward country through representing undeveloped transportation facilities and unsanitary living conditions. They characterized the coloniality of Korea through portraying modern buildings created by Japan on Seoul streets. Furthermore, they induced assimilation of Japan and Korea through the story of Korean rural areas.

  • https://doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2015.15.03.458 인용 PDF KSCI