일제시기 지역철도 연구 = 근대 식민도시 부산의 전철 건설을 둘러싼 지역사회의 역학관계

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

During the Japanese colonial rule, the Japanese society in Busan made its first plans for electric railways involving a circle line and transversal line(including the western Shingajiji) across Busan town. However, a straight line between Busan Port and the hot springs resort of Dongnae was first opened due to the Chosun Gas and Electric Corporation with a profit in mind and the Colonial Japanese Authorities with an imperialistic perspective, shifting the central axis of Busan northward. The Japanese society made repeated requests for electric railways in order to recover its centripetal force around a circle and transversal line across the town, contributing to the expanded and changed form of electric railways across the city. The connection between the Busanjin line and the Dongnae line intended to promote the development of Chosun and expansion into inland along with conversion into electric railways made a distinction between in-city and out-of-city lines at the Busanjin line. Later area differences led to spatial segmentation in which area and race discriminations were mixed together with race differences added.
However, the construction and operation of electric railways was not one-sided, being under the huge influence of empire, capital, and area. Areas had powerful impacts on the planning stage of electric railways, whereas the empire and capital influenced on their construction in mutual cooperation. The empire had particularly strong effects on the early construction process as it was in the early days of colonial management. Entering the middle and late period, areas saw through line construction by forming all sorts of groups and organizations and eventually succeeded in completing a line as planned. The operation of electric railways was overwhelmed by the force of capital from beginning to end. The areas and local administrative agencies did not exercise very powerful influence on the fares. The power of Chosun people was exercised when they resisted coloniality and modernity. Suffering from the dual area and race discrimination, Chosun people took partial part in the “public sphere” of the community and voiced their opinions, only to receive “echoes with no answers.” As a result, they could not help engaging in such resistance as overturning an electric car to form connections with electric railways.