대청사행(對淸使行)의 종결과 마지막 연행록 = The end a diplomatic trip on Qing dynasty and The Last Yeonhaenglok(燕行錄)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study is about the Yeonhaengrok by an anonymous author which is the last one in the history of the Yeonhaengrok. This one was owned the late professor Yu Tak-il, and disclosed to the public in 1983. But so far there is no study on this text and its author. Recently, the value of Yeonhaengrok is fully recognized not only by the domestic scholars but also by the scholars abroad. But studies so far are relatively focused on certain kinds of Yeonhaengrok, so, as a result, it is needed to understand Yeonhaengrok from the aspect of its style and history. This Yeonhaengrok is important because it is the document of the last envoy in the year of 1894. Because the political turmoil in the East Asia, the experience of the envoys are totally different from that of the past. Tracking with some clues in this Yeonhaengrok, I identified the author tobe Kim Dong-ho(金東浩, 1860-1921), who has been to Peking along with Min Yong-chol(閔泳喆), a member of Congratulation and Celebration envoy. The envoys suffered from extreme chaos and trouble caused by Donghak Peasant Revolution, Sino-Japanese war, the Gabo Reform. The Yeonhaengrok by Kim Dong-ho is unique because it represents the evolution of the ways of envoy, change of the way of aquiring informations, and agonies about the change of the time. They traveled by train and steamship, and communicated by telegraph system. And during the stay in Peking, they acquired informations on the East Asian situation through newspapers. But to the envoys, these new changes were not totally affirmative. They could not get used to the speed of changes, just looking on the arrival of the new era. The last envoy departed on June 1894, and returned on 3 May 1895. But during the time, the diplomatic relation between Qing dynasty and Chosun dynasty changed. Envoys to Qing dynasty ended, and Yeonhaengrok, the offspring of the envoy, also ended. By coincidence, in the year of 1895, Yu Kil-jun(兪吉濬) published Observation on the Journey to the West(『西遊見聞』). When the Yeonhaengrok as a path of receiving developed civilization came to the end, sprang up the new kind of document as the vanguard of Western civilization, and this is very symbolic.