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@article{ART002309655},
author={Myeong Sook Kim},
title={Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945},
journal={중앙사론},
issn={1229-3652},
year={2017},
number={46},
pages={225-261}

TY - JOUR
AU - Myeong Sook Kim
TI - Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945
JO - 중앙사론
PY - 2017
VL - null
IS - 46
PB - Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
SP - 225
EP - 261
SN - 1229-3652
AB - This case study examines the characteristics of Kyungsung Public Agricultural School students during Japanese colonial rule by analyzing the school register of the students who graduated in 1945. Kyungsung Public Agricultural School offered public co-education between Korea and Japan and was established in 1918 to foster agricultural expertise based on theory and practical skills in Gyeonggi-do. It aimed to cultivate Korean elite agricultural talents who inherited the advanced agricultural technology of Japan and who contributed to colonial agricultural policy. Among faculty, 70% of the teachers, including the principal, were Japanese, while 80-85% of the students were Korean. Korean students were treated differently than Japanese students by a number of Japanese teachers who were protected by colonial rule. National conflicts were always inherent; however, the school’s Korean students were far superior to Japanese students in academic performance and practical achievement, and they monopolized many prizes, such as a honor awards, attendance prizes, and practical training prizes, as well as being class leaders. Kyungsung Public Agricultural School sought to be the leading agricultural school in the East by providing excellent curricula, teachers, and school facilities, which became the envy of students whose goals were to become elite agriculture experts. The parents of students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School consisted of 58% farmers and 31.3% workers in modern capitalist occupations, such as public and private enterprises. In the case of farmers, worked small and medium-sized farms and were directly engaged in agricultural management rather than being large-scale landowners. Even the modern bourgeois class of 31.3 % hoped to foster their sons elite agricultural experts through modern agricultural education. In 1941, 88.3% of the students who enrolled faced fierce competition, and by 1945, 82.3% of them were employed. These students were considered the best agricultural elites, belonging to many district agricultural associations(郡農會), and leading agriculture production for war. The students of 1941 were did not graduate and were part of a five-year course, from which they were unable to complete their studies on war the end of Japanese imperialism. They were forcibly dispatched to official organizations to play a partial role in colonial-farm policy.
KW - Kyungsung Public Agricultural School;the School Register of the Graduates of 1945;Public School of Co-education between Korea and Japan;Elite Agriculture Experts;‘Unfinished Ggraduates’;District Agricultural Association(郡農會);Colonial-farm Policy
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Myeong Sook Kim. (2017). Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945. 중앙사론, 46, 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. 2017, "Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945", 중앙사론, no.46, pp.225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim "Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945" 중앙사론 46 pp.225-261 (2017) : 225.

Myeong Sook Kim. Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945. 2017; 46 : 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. "Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945" 중앙사론 no.46(2017) : 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945. 중앙사론, 46, 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945. 중앙사론. 2017; 46 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945. 2017; 46 : 225-261.

Myeong Sook Kim. "Characteristics of Students at Kyungsung Public Agricultural School during the Japanese Colonial Period: the School Register of Graduates of 1945" 중앙사론 no.46(2017) : 225-261.