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Study on Concept of Equality in Korean Newspapers during the Port Opening Era

  • The Review of Korean History
  • 2018, (129), pp.331-382
  • Publisher : The Historical Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : March 7, 2018
  • Accepted : March 18, 2018
  • Published : March 30, 2018

Jung, Jomg-won 1

1한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The idea of equality is a key concept of nation-state, which integrates people from different status and strata of premodern era into the modern nation. This study aims to analyze how the idea of equality became socially agreed epistemological structure during the Port Opening era, especially through series of Korean newspapers. During the Port Opening, Korean Newspapers represented the experience-space of equality through stimulating wordings such as shame and contempt, while constructed new horizon of expectations using the concepts of rights and Confucian reception. The idea of equality became a modern, dynamic concept by this gap between the experience-space and the horizon of expectation. The idea of equality was composed of international and domestic equality, and among them the international equality was more emphasized by the demand of independence of Korea. In order to mobilize nation for international equality, the nationalistic emotion must become a common sense by the achievement of domestic equality. By this the idea of domestic equality was expanded and strengthened. However its limit was also definite: the idea of domestic equality had a strong instrumentality for the international equality, and there were discriminative visions dividing world into civilization and savage among the idea of international equality.

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