Rent for the tenant-land during the end of Yi Dynasty was from 50% to 80% which was outright exploitation. Besides such hight rent, tenant-farmers were further exploited by unjust interference of the landlords in their private affairs.
As the result,...
Rent for the tenant-land during the end of Yi Dynasty was from 50% to 80% which was outright exploitation. Besides such hight rent, tenant-farmers were further exploited by unjust interference of the landlords in their private affairs.
As the result, rural economy declined in destitution and farmers who lost their land became day-laborers. Such conditions have grown worse under the Japanese colonial system. The farmers clashed with landlords over the tenancy-system and sometimes such disputes developped into the anti-Japanese movements.
As an conclusion, rural tenancy-system was employed as a means of exploitation by traditional nobilities, government officials and Japanese capitalists, which brought poverty and devestation to the rural areas. Therefore the only way to reconstruct the Korean rural area is to return the land to the farmers and put more emphasis on rural development.