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The secondary education system and Japanese language education in Korea and Taiwan during Japanese rule
Journal of Japanese Culture
2018, (78),
pp.5-22
DOI :10.21481/jbunka..78.201808.5
Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
Research Area : Japanese Language and Literature
DOI :10.21481/jbunka..78.201808.5
Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
Research Area : Japanese Language and Literature
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In this paper, we compared the secondary education systems in Korea and Taiwan to grasp the educational purpose and the essence of colonial education prescribed by the governor-general of Korea and the governor-general of Taiwan while those countries were under Japanese rule. We found that despite the fact that Korea and Taiwan were under Japanese rule at the same time, there were considerable differences in terms of education. In Taiwan, which came under Japanese rule more than fifteen years earlier than Korea, the system of secondary education was settled in 1915, more than twenty years after the beginning of Japanese rule. In Korea, entrance difficulties for secondary education were intense and refinement departments were activated, whereas in Taiwan, it was found that co-education with Japanese was carried out earlier than in Korea because of measures to control studying abroad. In the case of bilingual education, in Taiwan, after the Second Taiwanese Education Ordinance, cooperative learning with Japanese people has been permitted and textbooks have been unified since 1937. Compared with Korea, which implemented autonomous language education, it was easy to expand the colonial language policy pursued by the general government. As a result, although the Korean penetration rate of the national language remained at 17.6% in 1941, it exceeded 57% in Taiwan, finally reaching 71% in 1944. From this, it can be inferred that Japanese language education in Taiwan was a major effect of the “assimilation” policy accompanying the unification of the school system.
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