This study is intended to examine the nature of social conditions in Cheongju where students collectively withdrew from school during the period of U. S. military regime immediately after the liberation of Korea from Japan. While Korea was under contr...
This study is intended to examine the nature of social conditions in Cheongju where students collectively withdrew from school during the period of U. S. military regime immediately after the liberation of Korea from Japan. While Korea was under control of the leftist forces, the military regime was established by U. S. armed forces that occupied Korean Peninsula with anti communistic ideology without acknowledging anything other than military government. To resist the powerful leftists, the rightists were in favor of U. S. military forces that cracked down on the radicals. There were several conflicts between the right and the left in Chungcheongbuk-do, ending up with the right and U. S. forces` suppression of their counterpart. The circle of education was also led by the right wing or figures that had none of negative attitudes against their invader during the period of Japanese occupation in Korea, including the province that was also led by right oriented teachers and educational official servants. One of suppressions against anti government forces was to allow educational authorities to dismiss left oriented teachers who were falsely accused of agitating populaces or doing threatening behaviors or against dispositions of school principals which seemed to be enough to raise complaints from them, thus driving students to leave their schools temporarily. The event which students conspired to temporarily leave their schools in Cheonju wastriggered by the left oriented ones who were negative against principals who were appointed by educational authorities which took measures to fire the left wing teachers. This could be attributed to the fact that existing conflicts between the right and the left in the educational fields got more emergent, instigating Cheongju Middle School and its neighboring schools to do combined acts. The educational authorities in Chungcheongbuk-do assumed to accept to reappoint both teachers and teaching staff who had been expelled, without taking any specific actions, so prompting students to be absent from theirschools again. In the course of oppression, the authorities that could be said to belong to the right wing stuck to a hard-line stance against resisting students, requested police to arrest students as well as punished them. Their collective absence from school was an exemplary anti-action against authorities of conservative rightists`crackdowns on leftists, during the occupation of U. S. military forces in Korea, to which their plot was reported to have been of sizable and influential. It would be meaningful in that their staying out of school temporarily was influentially referred to in the requirements for leave of absences from middle or higher schools nationwide and statements of organizations and supported by them.