A Paddle-Wheel Ship Project in Late Joseon Korea― Focusing on Tasan’s Ideas

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article examines a paddle-wheel ship project imagined by epistolary exchange of two people at the end of the Joseon dynasty. The two protagonists are Jeong Yak-yong, alias Tasan(1762~1836), a Confucian scholar of encyclopedic knowledge with a particular interest here in civil engineering, and I Min-su(19th century), Naval commander and descendant of the Admiral I Sun-sin(1545~1598). The aim of the paddle-wheel ship project was to improve the functioning of the boats of the time as well as the daily life of the people. The material for this article is three kinds of texts written by three people. The first text is a short report by I Gyu-gyeong(1788~1856), which gives us precious information on the first model of a wheeled boat by I Min-su. The second texts are Tasan’s three responses to I Min-su in which Tasan developed several of his ideas. The third text is the proposal of I Min-su sent to his government in which the influence of Tasan is evident. The aim of this article is to understand Tasan’s technical ideas and to deduce his social and political motivations. For the understanding of his technical ideas, several types of paddle-wheel ships are presented by architect’s drawings.

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