전시되는 제국과 피식민 주체의 여행

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanism to follow up and control students’ leisure activities through school trip (writings) to Manchuria. In general, modern leisure is understood as a concept of non-labor against labor. Regarding students’ leisure, however, it is hard to simply apply leisure concept as non-labor because the ethics and modern general culture on students’ time are combined and perceived as another education and learning time. Then, leisure culture is born as students’ new lifestyle. A school trip is one of students’diverse extracurricular leisure activities. During the 1920s and 30s, the school trip for Joseon students was targeted to acquire knowledge as an extracurricular subject. In reality, however, things were different. This disparity can be confirmed through the Continuation of Abolition which has been repetitively mentioned since the regularization of school trip. Therefore, general culture theory itself is not enough to explain the genuine meaning of school trip. For this, we need to figure out the meaning structure of general culture theory. The school trip system is the logic of tourism in a type of capitalistic consumption and Japan’s imperialistic governing strategy. It is ‘School Trip to Manchuria,’ which shows this kind of characteristics of school trip. In a school trip, Manchuria is an exhibition hall of the Japanese Empire, in which Koreans are invited. Even though it is just a trip, Korean teachers and students become easily vulnerable to the logic of the Japanese Empire’s emotional politics through its triumphal stories. This paper has investigated the disturbance in Korean travelers’ identity during their trip to Manchuria. Even though they were given free time, they were not be able to completely free from the influence of the school trip. However, this paper has been able to investigate their attitude and perspective on Koreans in Manchuria.

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