The purpose of this thesis is to show the actural and present status of the study on old documents owned by Chonbuk province and make a few suggestions about how to make use of them. Old documents are valuable not only as historial materials themselve...
The purpose of this thesis is to show the actural and present status of the study on old documents owned by Chonbuk province and make a few suggestions about how to make use of them. Old documents are valuable not only as historial materials themselves, but as materials for cultural use as to a study on Korean history. That's why we should collect, document, and preserve the old documents being lost through modernization and industrialization.
This thesis consists of two categories. One category is about the present status of the researching and documenting of old documents designated as cultural assests and those which are not. In case of the old ducuments not designated as culturas assets, the status of documenting and researching using old documents is broken into parts according to the places having them. The other is about the ways of aplication using old documents. The way how to store old documents in the computer is presented, including methodology of the regional history and the way of developing th regional culture contents using who's who or a gazetter. The materials used here come from old documents in Iksan region conducted by Iksan Historical Materia! Is Committee.(益山史料조調査委員會)
There are 695 old documents designated as cultural assets including those designated as cultural assets by Chonbuk province itself, and 31,575 old documents not designated as cultural assets in Chonbuk. There are also approximately 2,663 old documents belonging to each individual, which are divided into the documents related to a state examination and a government post (42%), a etition and a lawsuit (19%), a family register (19%), and a personal property (14%). The amount of old documents owned by each museum account for more than 90% of the documents belonging to Chonbuk province, and, especially, the Museum of Chonbuk National University has about 18,000 old documents accounting for 57%.
Most of the old documents carried in literature are no more than an introduction toan event or a person and they are not fully interpreted or documented. The National History Compilation Committee has comparatively carried out research on historical materials about Iksan in detail by adding images and detailed lists. Also, Museum of Chonbuk National University ha published books about old documents. In addition, of the writings using old documents in Chonbuk province, those referring to Buan Kim's documents(扶安金氏古文書) of the families from the same clan account for the most However, these are likely to change because a research and a study on old documents being underway are not included. Lastly, these findings are based on the condition of the r! esearch and study conducted on September, 2004.