1920년대 이후 성공주의 기원과 확산

• 영문명: The Origin and Spread of Successism in the 1920s Korea : A Study of the Theory of Success Written by Christian Youth Choi Yeon-taek(崔演澤) who Accepted the Concept of Self-help
• 발행기관: 한국근현대사학회
• 저자명: 崔僖庭(Choi, Hee-jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국근현대사연구』제76집, 187~216쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 역사학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.03.30

영문 초록

The purpose of this paper is to study, a colonial intellectual Choi yeon-taek trying to propagate a discourse of one’s personal success in the 1920’s Korea. Since the March first movement, He launched campaign of one’s personal success by using newspapers and a edited book which contains partially translated Self-help. When Self-help was first introduced in newspapers and journals in the late of Great Han, the social meaning of ‘self-help’ was conceptualized and made into national ideology. After that time, the meaning of ‘self-help’ what Choi nam-son(崔南善) and Hon nan-pa(洪蘭坡) had interpreted was related to one’s personal affairs. The ‘self-help’ of Choi yeon-taek was similar to theirs. Choi yeon-taek was converted from a confucian to youth who had a background of christianity. He managed the publisher, munchangsa(文昌社), to propagate modern knowledge in colonial society like Choi nam-son. He was a writer of the magazine which is called shinchoenji(≪新天地≫) with Hon nan-pa. But his position of a publisher and writer was different from them to have symbolic power in the colonial society. I think that he was ‘youth’ in the position of boundary to relate with his level of education. Choi yeon-taek lived in A hyeon-dong(阿峴洞) Seodaemungu(西大門區), Seoul Korea. Before enter a elementary school in A hyeon-dong, he learned confucianism at sodang(書堂), a Korean traditional fundamental school. He left a course of secondary school and went to Japan to study for a short time. Even though his education level was high school class in the colonial Korea, he didn’t belong to a group of Korean students in Japan. Kimtaejajon(『金太子傳』), a version of Yook mi danggi(『六美堂記』) written by Chinese character, was serialized in the daily newspaper(≪每日申報≫) translated by Choi yeon-taek returned from Japan in 1914. He was converted from a confucian to christianity during his translation of the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and a novel of the beginning of sin and evil(『罪惡의 種子』) from 1921 to 1922. I found that Choi yeon-taek was a colonial intellectual to propagate a discourse of one’s personal success using a value of Self-help. In conclusion, I believe that the case study on Choi yeon-taek will be helpful to understand colonial intellectuals who was not well known to propagate a discourse of one’s personal success.

목차

1. 머리말

2. 최연택의 근대교육과 사회활동

3. 기독교 ‘청년’ 최연택과 성공주의

4. 맺음말

참고문헌

키워드

최연택 자조론 기독교 청년 성공주의 프랭클린의 자서전 문창사 Choi Yeon-taek self-help christian youth personal success successism the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin munchangsa