갑오개혁기 지방행정구역 개편 시도와 그 양상 = Attempts to reorganize local administrative districts during the Gabo Reform period and their aspects

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article analyzed the attempts to reorganize local administrative districts during the Gabo Reform, which is the starting point of the modern local administrative district reorganization work, using cabinet documents and local Eup-ji(邑誌).
In May 1895, during the Gapo Reform, it seems that the measure of converting 8-do(道) to the 23-bu(府) was the creation of a new governing zone that was implemented by the modern Japanese prefecture system. The reorganization of the 23-bu system as the creation of a new governing zone has created conditions for further subdivision of the province by significantly reducing the number of registered land counts and the number of counties in charge per metropolitan unit.
In the process of reorganizing local administrative districts during the Gabo Reform, a nationwide military merger that did not make a difference in military status for the purpose of local governance was also planned, but was not implemented. Instead, individual military mergers were promoted, and geographically close areas were targeted, and land, lakes, and small population areas tended to be abolished, and larger areas tended to remain. On the other hand, the status of local officials, which is the status of the existing region, was not an absolute criterion for abolition and remaining.
In 1896, measures to reorganize local administrative districts during the Gabo Reform were canceled, but the direction of subdivision of metropolitan units, reduction of jurisdiction, and equalization of military status during the Gabo Reform was compromised.