한말·일제 초 `지방지식인`의 근대적 제도 및 문물에 대한 경험과 인식 ―생활일기류(生活日記類)의 분석을 중심으로― = The Experience and Perception that the `Local Intellectuals` Had of The Modern Culture and Civilization during the Ending Days of the Daehan Empire and the Early Days of the Japanese Occupation: Examination of Personal Journals and Diaries(生活日記類)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article is an examination of the local intellectuals who accumulated experiences of the modern culture and formed a perspective upon such new things, through the personal journals and diaries they left during the time when Korea was moving toward an era of modernity. The local intellectuals` view of the modern capitalist institutions and policies were based upon their own personal interests. They did not show any active resistance or such attitude or even thinking to the new policies or the intervention from external forces. But on the other hand, they also demonstrated that the Koreans had internal potentials for development by well utilizing the colonial ruling policies of the imperial Japanese authorities. They also realized that the expansion of capitalist economy in Korea was not ensuring the colony population of wealth and happiness. But their view of the world followed the flow of the capital, and it started to gaze at Japan and the world, beyond the local areas and even the Hanyang capital of Joseon. What would the modern civilization have been like to the local intellectuals who newly faced it? They did not reject it at the first hand, or feared it based upon vague anxiety or Shaman beliefs just like the ordinary public. They continued to have a firsthand taste of modern culture and civilization, based upon rational thinking, reasoning, and economic power. They traveled to Seoul on train to watch motion pictures, took portrait photographs of their own, and received medical care at Western-style hospitals. But their experiences of modern culture was also part of their efforts to maintain their status inside the society. To them, it was a frustrating reality that the engine behind modernization was being driven by external forces(including the Japanese authorities), but the local intellectuals had always been the ultimate beneficiaries of the social structure and did not have the experience of resisting something. Therefore modern institutions and culture were things that they thought they should become familiar to, no matter who was providing them with it, in order to keep their status inside the society.