The coloniality of the Market Regulation set by Chosun Government- General is represented by its control over the life markets, which were essential to the everyday life of Chosun people, with a proxy of the police that acted in the name of public peace and order. But the more fundamental issue was that it defined the Jangsi(場市) as a retrogressive institution and further the object of rationalization to get rid of eventually. As a result, it used the Jangsi as a means of rule for policy promotion based on the minimal regulations for sanitation and taxation. It never set up and carried out policies to consider the characteristics of the Jangsi system and maintained an approach of no interest and no accountability towards any conflicts over the Jangsi among the citizens. The Market Regulation remained effective after Korea took back its independence and finally abolished right after 5‧16 Incident, after which the “revolutionary government” announced a new Market Act. Enacted in 1961, the Market Act followed the base of the Market Regulation in almost every aspect. Although it removed the provisions that endowed the police with the supervision and control authority and thus no longer enforced the old provisions that saw the life markets as the object of the government’s direct and oppressive control, it inherited the perception of the old colonial government that the Jangsi would gradually disappear and should be modernized from above. Such a viewpoint gave birth to the direct “argument to abolish the Jangsi” as its number continued to grow in the 1970s. There were also arguments for the rationalization and modernization of distribution. The Market Act followed the Market Regulation and the Central Wholesale Market Act was enacted and executed, which implies that the decolonialization of market acts manifested itself in the continuance of coloniality or the completion of modern colonial times. Although it’s restricted to market acts, it’s confirmed that the decolonialization process after Korea took back its independence was bound to the perception framework and structure of modern colonial times formulated by the colonial authorities and that the matter of modern colonial times was reproduced a matter of the present instead of the past.

The coloniality of the Market Regulation set by Chosun Government- General is represented by its control over the life markets, which were essential to the everyday life of Chosun people, with a proxy of the police that acted in the name of public peace and order. But the more fundamental issue was that it defined the Jangsi(場市) as a retrogressive institution and further the object of rationalization to get rid of eventually. As a result, it used the Jangsi as a means of rule for policy promotion based on the minimal regulations for sanitation and taxation. It never set up and carried out policies to consider the characteristics of the Jangsi system and maintained an approach of no interest and no accountability towards any conflicts over the Jangsi among the citizens. The Market Regulation remained effective after Korea took back its independence and finally abolished right after 5‧16 Incident, after which the “revolutionary government” announced a new Market Act. Enacted in 1961, the Market Act followed the base of the Market Regulation in almost every aspect. Although it removed the provisions that endowed the police with the supervision and control authority and thus no longer enforced the old provisions that saw the life markets as the object of the government’s direct and oppressive control, it inherited the perception of the old colonial government that the Jangsi would gradually disappear and should be modernized from above. Such a viewpoint gave birth to the direct “argument to abolish the Jangsi” as its number continued to grow in the 1970s. There were also arguments for the rationalization and modernization of distribution. The Market Act followed the Market Regulation and the Central Wholesale Market Act was enacted and executed, which implies that the decolonialization of market acts manifested itself in the continuance of coloniality or the completion of modern colonial times. Although it’s restricted to market acts, it’s confirmed that the decolonialization process after Korea took back its independence was bound to the perception framework and structure of modern colonial times formulated by the colonial authorities and that the matter of modern colonial times was reproduced a matter of the present instead of the past.

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Market Regulation, Market Act, Central Wholesale Market Act, cattle market, Jangsi(場市), coloniality, decolonialization