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수준 높은 연구, 지혜로운 정책 대안 제시로 국민 기대에 부응하겠습니다
Targeting High Quality Research and Insightful Policy Alternatives We wish you all and your families the best of luck in 2016, the year of the monkey. As we bid another year farewell and gather new hopes for the coming year, no four-character idiom other than "Dasa danan" (多事多難), which means eventful, seems to better describe the past year. The year 2015 marked the seventieth anniversary of Korea's liberation. Since becoming liberated, our previous generation strived and succeeded in making progress, one likely to go down in history as a proud and unparalleled achievement for the Republic of Korea. Yet, multiple circumstances presently surrounding the Korean peninsula seems to make it impossible for Koreans to fully rejoice over their liberation seven decades later. China is moving beyond "peaceful rising" (和平崛起) and is systematically spreading a historical view that signifies great power chauvinism. In the face of such change, Japan set out to reinforce its defense capability by amending its security-related laws. And it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the future of the North Korean regime. Now more than ever is the time to consolidate insights and efforts in order to ensure peace and prosperity for the Republic of Korea. 2015 has personally been a very special year for myself as well. It is because on the 17th of September, I took up my post as the fourth president of the Northeast Asian History Foundation. Since then, time has literally whizzed by from taking care of all sorts of tasks great and small, including the national assembly's annual inspection.
한·일 양국 전문가 초청 국제 학술회의 "'동아시아' 범주 확대하여 중층적 교류로 경계를 넘자"
International Academic Conference with Korean and Japanese Specialists "Expanding the Boundary of 'East Asia' and Engaging in Exchange to Transcend Borders" On November 19, 2015, the Northeast Asian History Foundation and the Korean Association for Political and Diplomatic History (President: Kim Young-myung, Professor, Hallym University) jointly held an international academic conference under the theme "Overall Issues in Korea-Japan Relations and Historical Reconciliation in Northeast Asia." Through a total of three sessions, nine different papers were presented and discussed on topics such as the historical development of Korea-Japan economic relations, controversial issues between Korea and Japan and their current status, cases of historical reconciliation, exchange, and cooperation, trends in multilateral cooperation in Northeast Asia, and regional plans Korea and Japan have for Northeast Asia.
Written by Kim Hyun-chul (Director, Office of Administration)
을사늑약 강제로 시작한 日 제국주의 침략 재고찰
Reconsidering Forced Entry into the 1905 Protectorate Treaty, the Beginning of Japan's Imperialist Invasion On November 20, 2015, the Northeast Asian History Foundation jointly held an international academic conference with the Research Institute of Korean History at the Seoul Museum of History to review the meaning Eulsa joyak (乙巳勒約 1905 Protectorate Treaty) holds for world history in the year of the treaty's 110th anniversary. The year 2015 also marks 120 years since the Shimonoseki Treaty was signed and 110 years since the Portsmouth treaty was signed. After the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a Russian-Japanese joint protection system was formed over the Korean peninsula, which turned into one exclusively run by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). It is therefore necessary to conduct a comparative review of how Japan turned Korea into its protectorate within the context of the above two instances of war. Revealing the treaty's violent and illegal nature this way is important for historicizing the 1905 Protectorate Treaty, which became the onset of an aggressor nation's violence toward the Korean peninsula under abetment and condonation from other imperialist nations. The outline of the conference indicates that research on proving and comparing historical cases have become more diverse and in-depth concerning the forcibleness, illegality, and invalidity of the 1905 Protectorate Treaty, which were major topics discussed at the academic conference on the treaty's centennial anniversary. This illustrates that it has become academically impossible to continue arguing for the treaty's legitimacy.
Written by Kim Won-soo (Professor, Seoul National University of Education)
중국과 일본에 관한 다산 정약용의 생각
Dasan Jeong Yak-yong's Thoughts on China and Japan Dasan Jeong Yak-yong (1762-1836) authored an extensive amount of works. It is easy to imagine him leaving a lot more than what already remains if he had visited China as Yeonam Park Ji-won had. Although Dasan never traveled to China or Japan, his writing shows that he was constantly concerned about the state of affairs in Northeast Asia. In the winter of 1799, Han Chi-eung (韓致應), a close friend of Dasan, was ordered to travel to China as a Seojanggwan, a secretarial position of taking notes among the envoys. Dasan wrote words of farewell to Han Chi-eung, who had been feeling presumptuous about being sent to a civilized country such as China. "Noon is generally said to be when the sun is above the top of one's head. Yet, when it takes the same time for the sun to rise and set in between noon, one finds oneself standing right in the middle between east and west. ... If one has already gained the center of all four cardinal directions, one is in China wherever one goes, so why call Joseon the 'Eastern Kingdom' (東國)? If it is China wherever one goes, why call it the 'Middle Kingdom' (中國)"
Written by Park Seok-moo (President, Dasan Research Institute)
《중국의 변경 연구》 중국 변강 연구사업의 현황과 시사점
《Borderland Studies in China》 Current Trend of Borderland Studies in China and its Implications Since 2003, the "Northeast Project" conducted by some Chinese scholars gained much attention in South Korean society. Despite the considerable amount of research South Korean academics have been doing since then regarding the Northeast Project, such research has been focused on only a few fields or areas. Moreover, interest in the project has barely traveled beyond historical studies over into political science or other fields of social science. There have also been very few cases in historical or geographical studies that have covered other projects necessary to understanding the Northeast Project. The book "Borderland Studies in China" contains a comprehensive report about research projects on borderlands that have been conducted in Chinese academia. China's land now shares its border with 14 different countries and its maritime boundary with 6 different countries. Most of the 55 different ethnic minorities in China live in borderlands referred to as "bianjiang" (邊疆 border region). Borderlands and ethnicities are issues central to China's development strategy and future plans, which it can therefore not afford to neglect. That is why Chinese academia has been conducting government-run projects on borderland issues, turned "borderland studies" into an individual academic field and is working on its systematization.
Written by Park, Jang-bae (Research fellow, Department of Modern History)
13도 창의군 기념비 추위도 두려움도 잊은 민중들의 항일 의지
Memorial of the 13-Province Righteous Army Public Resistance Against Japan Knew No Cold, Nor Fear The murder of Empress Myeongseong and the issue of a haircutting decree in 1895 gave rise to the anti-Japanese movement referred to as the "Eulmi Uibyeong" or Eulmi Righteous Army, only to become dispersed at the behest of King Gojong. However, after being forced to sign the Protocol of Alliance with Japan (Hanil uijeongseo 韓日議政書) in 1904 and forced to enter the Protectorate Treaty (Eulsa joyak 乙巳勒約) in 1905, some voiced for the need to raise a second righteous army and among them was the former righteous army general Wangsan Heo Wi (許蔿 1854-1908) from Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province. The forced entry into the Seven-article Treaty of 1907 (Jeongmi 7 joyak 丁未七條約) triggered righteous armies to resume anti-Japanese movements in the Korean provinces of Gyeonggi, Gangwon, Chungcheong, and Hwanghae. As soldiers who had been scattered across the country after the dissolution of the Korean Imperial Army joined in, the strength of the Jeongmi Righteous Army grew significantly. General Heo Wi, who had been fighting in Yeoncheon and Jeokseong of Gyeonggi Province, and Yi In-young, who had been fighting in Wonju together sent out to righteous armies all over the country a manifesto asking to join forces and then advance into Seoul. This gathered nearly ten thousand troops from across the country to Yangju in Gyeonggi Province. The army generals gathered there held a meeting and elected Yi In-young as the Commander in Chief and Heo Wi as Chief of Staff of the 13-Province Righteous Army (13-do Changeuigun 十三道倡義軍). Thereafter, in January 1908, an advance unit of three hundred troops led by Heo Wi succeeded in
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