고구려 ‘도성제’론의 궤적과 함의 = How the notion of Goguryeo having a Capital system was formed, and what it meant

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It is the general belief that the capital city of Goguryeo was a combination of a mountain fortress and a fortress constructed on plain ground. However, whether or not Goguryeo had such capital city or a system of that sort from the very beginning, or during its state-formation period, is yet to be determined. In order to determine when the Goguryeo capital city system was materially established, we shall first examine why the issue itself had never received adequate attention before.
So, tracked in this article is how the notion of a Goguryeo capital city system originated in the first place, and evolved over the years. At first, during the Japanese occupation period it was the Japanese scholars who exclusively led the studies on the Goguryeo dynasty’s “Doseong” Capital city. Sekino Tadashi in the 1910s suggested for the first time the aforementioned ‘Mountain fortress/Plain fortress’ combination as the characteristic of the Goguryeo capital city system, but there was an undercurrent to that notion, which viewed the Goguryeo capital city (as well as other Korean ancient capital cities in general) as crude and underdeveloped. He viewed the ‘plain fortress’ part as a ‘palace’ rather than a fortress, and argued that Korean ancient capitals lacked the capacity of protecting the people. His such interpretation was inherited by scholars in subsequent periods, and was even renewed by Chinese scholars in the 1980s. In the so-called “Northeast Research Project” the plain fortress of the Goguryeo capital city system was viewed as a recycled version of the old Han commandery facility. According to such perspective, the Goguryeo capital city system, characterized as a combination of both mountain and plain area fortresses, was understood as a system that was established during the time of the Goguryeo state’s formation. Ironically, that kind of understanding effectively rendered further discussion of the exact time point of the capital city system’s actual emergence a seemingly lesser priority. And a fairly low view of Goguryeo and the formation of the Goguryeo state continued to be perpetuated as a result.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 머리말
• 1. 1910년대 고구려 ‘도성제’론의 출발
• 2. 세키노 다다시(關野貞)식 한국 고대 ‘도성제’론의 함의
• 3. 1980년대 이후 고구려 ‘도성제’론의 재전유
• 맺음말
• 참고문헌
• 〈Abstract〉