통감부 시기 대한제국의 간도문제 인식

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The perception of the Gando sovereignty during the Residency-General period can be summarized as follows: First, any practical discussion over Gando during policy consultation between Empire of Korean government and Residency-General rarely occurred, and Empire of Korea hardly attempted to secure its sovereignty over Gando either. The Korean government policy which appeared to concession sovereignty over Gando was from the beginning backward-looking in the sense that it only confirmed the policy proposed by Residency-General.
Second, the attitude of The Korea Daily News toward Gando appears to be complicated. Its early reports strongly claimed Gando sovereignty and looked to accuse Japan of invading Gando. From early 1908, however, it seemed to have recognized that we have to accept it as a fact that Gando is Chinese territory Because standing up for Japan's Gando invasion would results in concession and justification of Japan's Korea invasion policy, it probably had to change its attitude toward Gando and had to recognize to prevent Japan's Korea invasion.
The following could be another possibility. As Japan's Korea invasion policy was intensified, Gando became the base for struggle against Japan. In such a situation, Korean people might have thought that independent movement would be easier and safer if Gando were Chinese territory. Put differently, if Gando became Korea territory Korean community would not be formulated there, and thus it could not be the base for independence movement against Japan. It should not be neglected that Gando could be the largest independence movement base during the Japan's colonial period, just because it was Chinese territory.