Howard Kahm Joint International Workshop February 12, 2007 Japanese Financial Institutions in Colonial Korea

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Howard Kahm

Joint  International Workshop

February 12, 2007

Japanese Financial Institutions in Colonial Korea

Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century has occupied an ambivalent space in terms of the historical unfolding of events, its incorporation in the Japanese empire, and its historical place within the regional space and economy of East Asia.  In terms of its own history, Korean scholars have struggled to define the inception of the modern era by delineating several points of origin including the anti-foreign, anti-feudal struggles of the 1860’s, the opening of the ports in 1876, and the Kabo reforms of 1894.[1]  While these scholars have incorporated elements of economic and political change including the evolution of a feudal society to a semi-feudal or semi-capitalist society, an overriding consideration of Korean nationalist historiography has been to refute the stagnation theory proposed by Japanese colonialist historiography.[2]

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*A paper presented at the joint research workshop with Korea University, Kyushu University, and the University of California, Los Angeles conducted at UCLA.  As this is a working draft, please do not cite, reproduce, or distribute without permission of the author.

[1] Ha Wǒn-ho, Han’guk kŭndae kyǒngjesa yǒn’gu [A study of modern Korean economic history] (Seoul: Sinsǒwǒn, 1997), 58.

[2] Henry Em, “Minjok as  Modern and Democratic Construct: Sin Ch’aeho’s Historiography,” in Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999), 346.