| Title |
Scholars' Cognition of Korean Conventional Housing from 1883 to 1910 |
| Keywords |
Korean conventional housing ; housing improvement ; discourse ; newspaper ; academic journal ; hygiene ; on-dol |
| Abstract |
This study analyzes how scholars recognized Korean conventional housing from the turn of the century. For this study, three resources were examined: newspapers and academic journals published in Korea and Japan(published by Korean students) from 1883 to 1910. As a result of this study, it discovered that those scholars from the turn of the century perceived Korean conventional housing to be outdated and uncivilized, while they considered the housing in western societies or the one in Japan influenced by western housing to be civilized. Scholars regarded unsanitary conditions of Korean conventional housing to be uncivilized, and provided suggestions and established a corporation to improve the sanitary condition of housing. They used the basic scientific knowledge in the fields of physics, chemistry, and physiology to examine the condition of conventional housing.??Such scientific knowledge was the latest at that time and was efficiently applied to determine and to criticize unsanitary conditions of conventional housing and further to request improvements in the sanitary conditions. The years from 1883 to 1910 are significant in that they represent the period of time when scholars came to recognize unsanitary conditions of Korean conventional housing and their finding was possible through a comparison in the sanitary conditions between Korean conventional housing and the ones in Japan or western societies. |