식민지시대 도시생활의 한 양식으로서 ‘대극장’ - 1930년대 경성부민관을 중심으로 -
A Grand Public Hall Opened in Colonial Seoul - Gyeongseong Bumingwan or Keijō Fuminkan As a Way of Urban Life of the 1930s -
This paper examines a public hall opened by the municipal government in colonial Seoul. Sited at one of the hub areas of downtown Seoul and currently used as the main building of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, Gyeongseong bumingwan or Keijō fuminkan (literally, a hall for Gyeongseong municipal people) remains one of only a few colonial edifices in the city. In particular, this study inquires into the questions of what the government has sought for through the building of a public hall and in what way the hall has become a way of urban life as a grand hall. By the early 1930s, dwellers of Seoul, especially the Japanese, have strongly aspired for the construction of a ‘grand hall,’ which would be capable of accommodating congregations and lectures, performances and movie screenings, and rite gatherings and other social- work meetings. Especially many of the urban Japanese yearned for performances of first-class Kabuki troupes of imperial Japan. On December 10, 1935, the opening day of the hall, the municipal government has tried to deliver the message of uniting officials and common populace and Koreans and the Japanese into municipal people or ‘bumin’ through a series of ceremonies; at the same time, it has proclaimed the completion of the hall to be a sacred project of the colonialist through a Shinto rite. Although rental fees of the hall were quite expensive, it has been utilized for many purposes. Not only those events of lectures, conventions, plays, films, and music concerts were held in the hall, but such social rites as weddings and memorial services could also be arranged in the hall. To be sure, the grand public hall has contributed to gather together the urban masses in the name of ‘municipal people.’ This collective mood was accelerated when the news of the Sino-Japanese War(1937) reached the colonial city, and the hall was swiftly transformed into a theatre for boosting war fever among the people. It was during the war period that Gyeongseong bumingwan could be best used as a grand public hall for unity.
목차
Ⅰ. 머리말 Ⅱ. 새로운 강당 건축물의 구상과 건립 과정 1. ‘대극장’을 결(缺)한 식민지 도시, 경성 2. ‘공익사업’으로서 강당 건립과 경성부회의 의결 과정 3. ‘대극장’으로서 경성부민관의 설계 Ⅲ. ‘대극장’의 경성: 경성부민관의 개관과 활용 1. 낙성개관식의 개최 2. 운영과 변화: 대극장에서 전시(戰時) 무대로 Ⅳ. 맺음말 참고문헌 ABSTRACT <부록> 개관 당시 경성부민관 사용료 (단위: 円)
키워드
경성부민관대극장공익사업대강당도시생활Gyeongseong bumingwan(Keijō fuminkan)colonial Seoula grand public halla way of urban life
서울학연구소는 ‘서울학’을 육성, 확산하기 위해 서울 600년을 계기로 하여 1993년 서울특별시의 지원 아래 서울시립대학교 부설로 설립되었습니다.
서울학의 연구대상은 도시 서울입니다.
서울학은 서울의 장소, 사람, 일, 문화를 만들어내고 변화시키는 과정과 힘을 탐구하여 서울이 지닌 도시적 보편성과 특수성을 밝히는 것을 목적으로 합니다. 서울학여느 종합적 관점을 견지하면서 학제적 연구를 지향합니다.
서울에 대한 여러 기성학문 분야(역사학, 지리학, 사회학, 인류학, 경제학, 건축 및 도시계획학등)의 연구관심과 성과가 상호조명되고 교차되는 데에 서울학에 영역이 있습니다.
서울학의 학문적 관심은 오늘의 서울을 만들어낸 역사적 과정을 이해하는 데에 있지만, 그 실천적 관심은 현재의 서울에 대한 심화된 성찰을 통해 보다 나은 서울의 미래를 그리는데에 있습니다.