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The Role of Lee Guk-ro in the Hangeul Movement in 1930's

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2008, (92), pp.141~180
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of Lee Guk-ro in the Hangeul Movement in 1930's. Japanese imperialistic language policy is to eradicate the Korean native language and to spread Japanese. By doing so the imperialists tried to assimilate Korean to Japanese. They tried to root out the consciousness of Korean national identity. After returning Korea via Europe, Lee Guk-ro promoted the Hangeul Movement all over the country. He organized the Korean Language Society(朝鮮語學會) and a committee of the compilation of Hangeul dictionary(朝鮮語辭典編纂會). Though the organization, he studied, permeated, developed Hangeul on a nationwide scale. This Hangeul Movement provoked by Lee Guk-ro has significance in national history. In this process the leading figures in the Korean Language Society has established the Spelling System of Hangeul, and compiled Hangeul dictionary, and settled the standard language and the orthography of a word of foreign origin. They resisted Japan's language assimilation policy and their fundamental principles formed the basis of the language policy of independent nation-state. Lee Guk-ro specially celebrated Hangeul Proclamation Day all over the country. He and his colleague opened Hangeul workshop on a large scale. Uncompromising nationalist Lee Guk-ro played an leading role in the Hangeul Movement of the Korean Language Society in 1930ㆍ40's national combat. The historical feature of Hangeul Movement in 1930's was anti-feudalistic and anti-imperialistic. In other words this movement was the modernization movement of language and the independence movement of nation.

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