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A Study on the Actual Management of Temple forests under the Japanese Rule

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2014, (114), pp.125-160
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Choi, Byung Taek 1

1공주교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

The Joseon Government-General performed The project of Forest Land survey from the year of 1917 to 1924. At that time, Buddhist temples in korea laid claim to the forest they owned, but not every buddhist temple could acquire the ownership. The Joseon Government-General gave buddhist temple preemptive right just in case theyprotected the forest. Japanese authority had guaranteed legal ownership right to those that had preemptive rights for the forest. And Then, the Government-General forced temples to submit “working plans” for the forest, that means the japanese authority would not allow to left the forest untreated and unprotected. But temples did not keep the working plans, because they were financially embarrassed for forced-donation to the Central buddhist administrative office and embezzlement which committed by chief monks. Temples in korea wanted cut down trees at their own forest, that is prohibited by the japanese authority officially. But The reality is the Government-General did not prohibited logging. Actually the japanese authority strongly supported the Central buddhist administrative office and chief monks to make their control tightened over the buddhism. The authority didn’t want to improve the financial problem that temple had. Because of that situation, temples had to use the forest under the connivance of the Government-General.

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