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The narcotic problems after the liberation of Korea and social awareness - Liberation and the establishment of the government early -

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2012, (108), pp.301-342
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

CHO SEOK YEON 1

1한국외국어대학교

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ABSTRACT

This thesis is the narcotic problems at a nation building process after the liberation of Korea. That researches outline is as the following. National recognition of poppies cultivated by the people is comparatively generous in a traditional society. People had cultivated poppies to utilize them as home medicine in agricultural districts in Korea. Opium gathered on the poppy's skin takes effects as medicine for internal use, so it was not difficult to see that people had at least a lump of opium at home. At that time a lot of agricultural village didn't have a hospital and a medicine was always insufficient. Opium was known as a remedy for every ill and people used to take opium they had at home whenever it was required. Under the rule of Japanese imperialism, Morphine refined from opium was used for a medicine to people as well. Generally morphia had to be used restrictively as prescribed by a doctor, but patients as well as doctors were not aware of its danger and toxicity. Furthermore Japan employed a generous policy on opium, so a lot of people were addicted by opium. Opium had been recognized as household medicine but not as a narcotic. People could not recognize morphinism as a crime. They were certainly patients and scapegoats by the wrong state policies. But they were regarded as a criminal, a social evil, in a special situation of nation building after liberalization. they also were treated as a group disturbing nation building in a time of establishing a united nation of people. Therefore, they did not offer a social opportunity to protection. At this era, even though state had a social conscience of drug problem from the liberalization through 1950s, she could not deal with the drug problem specifically and positively, because of the war and the struggle of ideology between south and north, because of a historical matter like a nation reconstruction after war, because of a trouble building up the basic health problem. Therefore, emphasized to duty of human's conscience and social moral principle problem that do not take narcotic. State made a social role and status of everyone, regardless of the controlled or the controller, about drug control, enlarging the power of drug control step by step. So to speak, state began to warn the narcotic addicts socially and ethically in a time of liberalization. In the end, after the war came to an end, she treated them as a social evil. On the one hand, in a institutional point of

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