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Study on ‘Mutualism’ and Korean Modern History of Cooperative Movement

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2014, (116), pp.339-382
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

kyungran Lee 1

1연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

Social economy, public ownership theory, and mutual society theory are connected to social movement, which insists to create a balance and mutual structure of nation-society-individual. And It would change to human centered social economy where citizens' independence is alive. To see Korean society from the viewpoint of Division, social conflict, and the expansion of capitalism, the movement to create this balance is invisible. This research investigated the contextualization of the movement which aims for mutual society in Korean modern history by reviewing South and North Korea cooperative movement and New Nation construction theory under Japanese Imperialism. Cooperative society policy, which was raised in South and North Korea after liberation was the process as well as the output of cooperation and competition between cooperative theory connected with the theory of the State/economic theory of various influences formed under Japanese Imperialism. Also, economic system of South and North Korea is in common based on cooperative society as the basis of society. Particularly, people's democracy system of North Korea, which was at the initial stage of nation construction and equal economic system which was raised by the first constitution of South Korea, nevertheless difference in the content and application period, were the attempts to realize sharing and symbiotic social economy, e.g. reformation and cooperative society, products exchange system between city and rural community (industry and agriculture), guarantee of labor rights, major industry nationalization, etc.

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