The Poetics and Politics of Culture:A critical rethinking of cultural geography

Keumsoo Hong 한국문화역사지리학회 2000 문화 역사 지리 Vol.12 No.2

The Shaping and Progress of Korean Historical Geography Since 1945

Keumsoo Hong 대한지리학회 2012 대한지리학회지 Vol.47 No.4

현대 역사지리학은 일제강점기 일본 여러 대학의 지리역사과에서 수학한 1세대 지리학자, 특히 노도양의 선구적인 활약에 힘입은 바 크며, 1960년에 미국 유학을 마치고 귀국한 이찬에 의해 본격적인 출발과 비약적인 성장을 기대할 수 있었다. 사우어의 문하생인 니펜의 지도를 받은 연유로 이찬은 답사와 문헌자료에 입각한 버클리 학파의 방법론을 한국에 이식하였으며, 1988년에 한국문화역사지리학회를 창립하여 과거의 지리와 지리적 변화에 관심을 가진 학자의 역량을 결집하는 구심체로 삼았다. 2세대 학자가 양산된 1980년대 이래 한국 역사지리학은 케임브리지 학파의 단면법의 성과를 수용하면서 연구의 활성화를 기하고 있으며, 주제와 방법론의 폭을 넓혀가고 있다. Korean historical geography as a distinct subset of modern geography began with the pathbreaking efforts of Do-Yang Roh in the second half of the 1940s. He was joined in 1960 by founding father Dr. Chan Lee who carried with himself the Berkeley geography he learned from Fred Kniffen, his advisor, and Robert West at Louisiana State University. Dr. Lee, the single-most important figure in the development of Korean historical geography, founded in 1988 the Association of Korean Cultural and Historical Geographers in order to pull together those interested in past geographies and geographical change. Korean historical geography took off in the 1980s when large numbers of doctoral theses were produced domestically and abroad and British cross-sectional methodology added. Diversity in research theme and methodology characterizes present-day Korean historical geography.

Toward a New Historical Geography:L'Ecole des Annales and the Emergence of Geohistorical Social Science

Keumsoo Hong 한국문화역사지리학회 2001 문화 역사 지리 Vol.13 No.2

A Quest for Symbolic Centers: Exploring Humanist Geographies of Pilgrimages

Keumsoo Hong 한국문화역사지리학회 2003 문화 역사 지리 Vol.15 No.2

역사지리의 파국적 단절과 미완의 회복

홍금수(Keumsoo Hong) 한국문화역사지리학회 2009 문화 역사 지리 Vol.21 No.3

This paper discusses the discontinuous patterns of population growth, settlement evolution and land uses of Haeahn-myeon in Yanggu County driven by the Korean War. The checkered geopolitics right after the demise of Japanese colonial rule and the ensuing tragic war caused a sweeping cutback of native population and turned the utopian image upside down making the region a battlefield fraught with land mines. The situation is more striking when it comes to landownership: most land parcels come to be owned by the central and local governments on account of displacement of native landowners. There are looming signs of normalization in the evolution of local geographies. Population fallen down to the preindustrial level bounces back to the normal; peace sets in with the amelioration of geopolitical situation; and arable land begins to be utilized for profit purposes. Nonetheless, the catastrophic disjunction of punchbowl to the north of civilian control line is an undeniable historical geographical fact.

고려시대 흥원창과 법천·거돈·흥법 원주 3대 강변사찰

홍금수(Keumsoo Hong) 대한지리학회 2019 대한지리학회지 Vol.54 No.6

원주의 법천사, 거돈사, 흥법사는 신라하대에 중창된 江寺로서 고려창업과 왕권강화에 조력하며 국가공인의 비보사찰로 지정, 경제적 지원 아래 흥성한다. 지광국사 혜린, 원공국사 지종, 진공대사 충담 등이 주석하거나 왕사와 국사의 책무를 완수하고 하산해 입적한 대찰이며 고승의 승탑과 승탑비는 3사의 정치·사상적 영향력을 알리는 상징경관으로 남아 있다. 남한강과 섬강이 합류하는 원주 서부지역의 취락과 경제중심으로서 세 사찰은 수로를 통해 지역 간 문물교류를 매개하고, 개경의 선진문화를 중부내륙으로 전파하여 중원문화지역 형성에 일조하는 한편, 지역사회에 다양한 시혜를 펼치고 흥원창을 호위하였다. 고려 초 과도기적 세곡운송체제로 운영된 60포제의 은섬포를 계승한 흥원창은 중앙집권적 수취체제의 확립을 반영하는 13조창의 하나로 설립되어 국가재정을 지탱하였다. 개경과 경주, 영동과 내포를 잇는 간선교통로의 교차점에 해당하는 지정학적 위치에서 흥원창은 원주 3사의 직·간접 지원 아래 재정, 정치, 군사, 사회, 문화 기능을 수행하였다. 고려시대 흥원창의 성장과 쇠퇴는 남한강수로변 법천·거돈·흥법사의 역사지리적 변천을 압축적으로 재현한다. Chartered as ideological outposts by the court of Goryo Kingdom the Buddhist temples of Bupcheon, Geodon and Heungbup in Wonju enjoyed a privileged status of royal institution throughout the monarchical regime. The landscape of stupa and monuments sponsored by the central government and accrued to such highly respected mentors as Haerin, Jijong and Choongdam represented the spiritual centrality of the temples in the interior mid-Korea, or Joongwon. These religious institutions on the Han River served as central places of regional economy and communal life and facilitated implantation of aristocratic culture of the Royal capital upon the soils of hinterland as well. Although hindered by the presence of the rapids, the Han River modulated the shaping of cultural and historical geography of Wonju Region. The transformation of the sacred temples proceeded in tandem with Heungwonchang, a granary storehouse which transported tax in kind to Gaesung. The rise and fall of Heungwon storehouse at a geopolitical crossroad recapitulated the political, economic, religious and cultural trajectory trodden by the present-day deserted three temples in Wonju.

載寧 餘勿坪(나무리벌)의 歷史地理的 再照明

洪錦洙(Keumsoo Hong) 한국문화역사지리학회 2007 문화 역사 지리 Vol.19 No.3

  Jaeryong River drains Jaeryong, Bongsan and parts of six other counties, developing extensive plains on its way to Daedong River. It was during the reign of King Injo and under the leadership of General Ja-Jeom Kim that the grand project of reclaiming the low-lying swamp area at the mouth was materialized into a breadbasket of namoori-bol. The newly-won land was granted to palaces of royal families such as Sujin, Yuksang and Myongrye, and the key diversion dam of Jeontan to Gyeongwoo Palace. For the management of the reclaimed land the landlord allowed local improvers to employ sharecroppers at will, a practice which had remained undisrupted until Japanese Imperial Corporation of Dongyangcheoksik took over namoori-bol. Rebellion against the agribusiness" coerced system of sharecropping represents symbolic efforts of native tenant farmers to reinstate the placeness of namoori-bol which was shaped by an enduring struggle with nature and then uprooted abruptly by Japanese colonizers.

경관과 기억에 투영된 지역의 심층적 이해와 해석

홍금수(Keumsoo Hong) 한국문화역사지리학회 2009 문화 역사 지리 Vol.21 No.1

Geography is a science of region, place, and space. Landscape performs a critical role for the in-depth understanding of these regional trilogy. It was since the publication of Sauer's seminal essay 'The Morphology of Landscape' in 1925 that landscape as a subject matter began to lie embedded in practitioners concerns. The contested Hartshorne-Sauer debate in the early 1940s turned out to have broaden the horizon of landscape studies. Cultural geography touches on various topics in association with morphology, aesthetics, cultural politics and iconography. Urban and ordinary landscapes unnoticed so far gather a serious attention as well. Historical geographers in the meantime try to make sense of landscape changes through time. The reconstruction of historical landscapes in particular helps to capturing the essence of regional geographies of the past. Revisiting landscapes and regions of the foregone era leans on memory, while memory is in turn revoked by landscapes. When the memory work goes collectively, ethnic and place identities gets consolidated. Fieldwork enriches landscape studies to a great extent.

堤川郡 近左面 <耕地配列一覽圖>의 제작 배경과 사료적 가치

홍금수(Keumsoo Hong) 한국문화역사지리학회 2015 문화 역사 지리 Vol.27 No.3

With the ratification of the 1905 Protectorate Treaty the Japanese regime restructures the financial system of the Greater Korean Empire with the initiation of Land Tax Assessment Rolls and Estate Maps. It turned out that the Government General of Chosun could control the Korean land by the parcel with the help of this cadastral system. In 1911 the colonial government conducted the pilot project of the estate maps of North Choongchung Province and six counties of South Choongchung Province before applying it to the nation as a whole. Shaped out of an unsophisticated surveying technique, the cadastral map sheets displayed the traditional contents of landlord names, land uses and seed acres, along with the modern addition of legend, direction and scale symbols. The single most characteristic feature of the maps, however, would be the first ever demarcation of the administration units of dong and ri villages. Thirteen sheets of the estate map of Geunjwa-myon, Jecheon County afford an essential perspective for the reconstruction of past landscapes, which is tested in this paper at Wonbark-ri village of the Parkdal Pass.

구룡포 신사터의 탈식민 혼성경관 텍스트에 내재된 다중의미

홍금수(Keumsoo Hong) 한국문화역사지리학회 2013 문화 역사 지리 Vol.25 No.3

Guryongpo came to claim a transnational positionality with the arrival of Setonaikai fishermen in the early 20th century. The Japanese constructed breakwaters and reclaimed the inlet area making the quiet fishing village a booming port town. They established a major Shinto shrine on the hilltop to assuage homesickness, transforming it into a symbolic center of their cosmos and an ideological state apparatus for the control of natives' mentality. Despite the hoped-for independence, however, Guryongpo people failed to replace the dominant colonial landscape for the nationalist post-colonial one, opting instead to remember the past on their own way by selectively deleting, replacing, and relocating landscape features of the shrine site. The hybrid landscape thus shaped was later joined by the monument of Korean War. The heritage industry in the meantime sets out to myth-making in an attempt to entice tourist gaze. At present, the conflicting demands of the nation, Pohang City and Guryongpo lead up to mutually contrasting interpretations of the former Shinto shrine site, i.e., as a sacred place of anti-communism, as a heritage tourist site and as a symbol of diasporic intercultural identity.