‘은자(隱者) 왕국’의 세상 엿보기 혹은 좌절된 접속: 1900년 파리세계박람회에 전시된 ‘세기말’ 조선 (From A ‘Hermit Kingdom' To An ‘Enlightened Nation'? Fin-de-Siècle Korea As Exhibited at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900: Revisited)

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초록

This paper tries to reappraise historical implications and legacies of Korea’s participation at l’Exposition Universelle de Paris of 1900. Insead of approaching the Exposition as a diplomatic affair and international power game, the author rediscovers it as a cultural event where politics of spectacles, propagation of consumerism, and mode of civilizing process overlapped and competed each other. Were there any significant differences between Korea’s participation at the Chicago Columbian World Fair in 1893 and Paris Exposition in 1900? What kind of stereotyped knowledge and (mis)perception did European countries had on a poor and isolated ‘hermit kingdom’ in the Far East, and vice-versa? Had the Korea’s involvement with the Paris Exposition left any positive impacts on its construction of national identity and modernization? These are major questions that the article endeavors to answer.
The first half of the article summarizes how Korea’s opening to Western nations since 1883 contributed to ‘importing’ European cultures, reviews the peculiarities of French-Korea relations prior to the Exposition, and introduces persons who engaged during fin-de-siècle in cultural exchanges and mutual (mis)understanding between the two nations. The second half of the paper explains how French mass media appreciated the Pavilion of Imperial Korea, and criticizes the serious incompatibilities regarding the Exposition between Emperor Gojong’s praise and curiosity (‘from the above’) and almost absolute ignorance among ordinary Koreans (‘from the below’). As many volumes of Korean ancient texts which had been displayed at the Exposition and seized in France for long repatriated recently to their home land, author concludes that “the tales of two nations” entangled at the Paris Exposition in 1900 continue in global and transnational perspectives.

영어초록

This paper tries to reappraise historical implications and legacies of Korea’s participation at l’Exposition Universelle de Paris of 1900. Insead of approaching the Exposition as a diplomatic affair and international power game, the author rediscovers it as a cultural event where politics of spectacles, propagation of consumerism, and mode of civilizing process overlapped and competed each other. Were there any significant differences between Korea’s participation at the Chicago Columbian World Fair in 1893 and Paris Exposition in 1900? What kind of stereotyped knowledge and (mis)perception did European countries had on a poor and isolated ‘hermit kingdom’ in the Far East, and vice-versa? Had the Korea’s involvement with the Paris Exposition left any positive impacts on its construction of national identity and modernization? These are major questions that the article endeavors to answer.
The first half of the article summarizes how Korea’s opening to Western nations since 1883 contributed to ‘importing’ European cultures, reviews the peculiarities of French-Korea relations prior to the Exposition, and introduces persons who engaged during fin-de-siècle in cultural exchanges and mutual (mis)understanding between the two nations. The second half of the paper explains how French mass media appreciated the Pavilion of Imperial Korea, and criticizes the serious incompatibilities regarding the Exposition between Emperor Gojong’s praise and curiosity (‘from the above’) and almost absolute ignorance among ordinary Koreans (‘from the below’). As many volumes of Korean ancient texts which had been displayed at the Exposition and seized in France for long repatriated recently to their home land, author concludes that “the tales of two nations” entangled at the Paris Exposition in 1900 continue in global and transnational perspectives.

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