The study of conflicts between generality and particularity over the disaster investigation of colonial rule authority

This study aims at reviewing of the cracking point of governance of colonial power through the contrast between the voices of colonial Koreans who lived in disaster situation and the disaster survey of colonial power. The conflicts between colonial officials' social and economic statistics and individuals as the object of the statistics poses the problem of governance of colonial power. Because the colonial power integrated data which was collected by the bottom of the governance bodies, the statistics is not only able to acquire the objectivity and generality, but also to have a greater possibility to fail to understand the peculiarities of the colonial reality. The basic policies in disaster management of Government in General of Chosen had been leaned to assist the livelihood rather than to rescue the man directly. It is also the product of passive relief principle for the disaster of colonial rule authority. There was hidden the political intent to reduce the disaster relief costs and the desire of austerity to hide the failure of good government. Even it has been carried out distortion from investigation stage in order to conceal the mismanagement in local government. Statistics that too reflected the reality was an unnecessary work that might cast doubt on 'good governance' which Government in General of Chosen continued to insist. It was produced the results to reduce the statistics of hunger farming families. On the other hand, in the case of the field survey, there is an advantage to be able to concentrate on the field survey and its special characteristics with respect to the target area, but is weak to understand the general properties that can be compared. Song Gi-chan was engaged in social movements in Gyeongsangbuk-do, He successfully took advantage of the statistics of the field research in disaster of drought in 1923 which was made by local governments in Gyeongsangbuk-do. Picking up the peculiarities of each region that has been excluded from the general statistics, he also dared the criticism of the governance of colonial power.