1920년대 전반기 하와이 故國訪問團의 추진과 성격― 일제의 해외한인 회유정책을 중심으로 ―

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 한국근현대사학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국근현대사연구 / 67호 / 330 ~ 361페이지
· 저자명 : 김도훈

초록

The Japan implemented a project of the visit of Korean ethnic people in foreignnations to their motherland as a part of the conciliatory policies toward thosepeople.
It was not until 1916 that the Japan started pursuing such project towardKorean ethnic people in Hawaii. Understanding that the Korean society in Hawaiiis run mainly by those minority ethnic intellectuals, the Japanese authoritiesconcocted the scheme to order the Japanese consulate to lure Korean church pastorsand leaders into promoting such project. Missionary Bishop M. C. Harris wasselected as the person most adequate for engaging in Korean ethnic people overseas.
He had a close connection with Rhee Syng-man and Min Chan-ho in Hawaii,as well as key members of YMCA in Korea. Harris met the Japanese consulin Honolulu and Cynn Heung-wu who accompanied with him in 1916 whenhe visited Hawaii, and had a discussion about how to conciliate Korean ethnicpeople in Hawaii. Such discussion was made mainly by Korean YMCA membersincluding Cynn Heung-wu - group in favor of Rhee Syng-man - Japanese consul,under the arrangement of Harris. But such project had been suspended in November1918 just before it was just about to be facilitated, due to the independencemovement that took place on the 1st of March in the following year.
In 1921~1922, a project of the visit of Korean ethnic people in foreign nationsto their motherland was resumed. It was July 1923 that such project pursuedagain by Cynn Heung-wu, Kim Yoon-soo and Lee Jeong-beom was, finally, goneinto effect. But teachers and students in the school which was run by PresidentRhee running the Provisional Government received Japanese passports. The fact that they did so meant that they acknowledged they are ‘Japanese imperial colonialsubjects’. In the face of public harsh criticisms for it from the Korean societyin America, Rhee Syng-man enforced to implement such project mentioned above.
It is deemed that Rhee Syng-man did it in an attempt to construct his ownpower at home and abroad including Hawaii, after June 1922 when he wasdistrusted from the provisional legislative institution. Accordingly, a project ofthe visit of Korean ethnic people in foreign nations to their motherland pursuedunder the leadership of Rhee Syng-man was to badly affect the independencemovement foundations and groups including Korean society in America, let alonethe Korean Provisional Government; to trigger the divisions and discords betweenthe Korean Provisional Government and Korean society, on the part of the Japan.

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