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한인들은 1920년대까지 주로 민족교육기관과 중국인학교에서 수학하였으며, 민족교육기관인 삼일유치원을 설립하고 우리말과 역사를 교육시켜 독립운동세력으로 양성하고자 했다. 그러나 천진지역 독립운동세력이 일본의 감시와 탄압으로 각지로 흩어지게 되면서 그들이 운영하던 삼일유치원 역시 문을 닫고 말았다. 민족교육기관의 부재와 현실적인 어려움으로 인해 한인들은 자녀들을 중국인학교에 보내 중국사회 내에서의 완전한 정착을 도모하였다. 그러나 1931년 만주 침공을 계기로 일제가 천진지역에서 점차 세력을 확대해감에 따라 천진지역 한인의 교육상황에도 변화가 나타났다. 한인들은 일제가 주도하는 사회 내에 진출하기 위해서 일본교육기관에 입학하려는 경향을 보였으며, 일제 역시 내선공학을 내세워 한인들을 적극적으로 식민교육기관 안에 편입시켰다. 그러나 한인들이 일제의 식민교육기관 내에서 일본인과 함께 교육 받는 이른바 내선공학을 일본인과 동등한 지위를 향유할 수 있는 기회로 받아들인 반면, 일제는 한인들의 교육에 대한 기대를 기만적으로 이용해 한인들을 전장에까지 동원하였다.


Till the 1920s, Koreans mostly went to educational agencies affiliated with their ethnic group or the Chinese people. They established Samil Kindergarten, which was an ethnic educational agency, and taught the Korean language and history to raise the students as future powers of the independent movement. However, as the surveillance and suppression of Japan scattered the Korean people of Tianjin who were involved in the independent movement to various regions, Samil Kindergarten which was operated by those people had no choice but to close down. Due to the absence of an ethnic educational agency and realistic difficulties, the Korean people started sending their children to Chinese educational agencies in attempt to fully settle in the Chinese society. Then, in 1931, the Invasion on Manchuria occurred to make the Japanese Empire expand their influence on Tianjin area, which eventually changed the educational circumstances of the Korean people in the area. In the 1930s, the Japanese Empire started asserting the ‘mutual education for Japanese and Koreans,’ and tried to infuse colonial education into the Korean people. This made more and more Koreans be fond of entering Japanese educational agencies as they thought the mutual education for Japanese and Koreans provided by the Japanese educational agencies will give them an opportunity to have the same status with the Japanese people. However, the Japanese Empire deceptively used such expectations of the Korean people. After the Sino-Japanese war broke out, the Korean students were transferred to the Japaneseeducational agencies through the ‘mutual education system for Japanese and Koreans,’ which wasused as a mean to mobilize the students to battlefields.