Memory of Gisaeng(妓生) represented in postcards of Japanese Colonial Period

1908년 일제통감부의 ‘기생단속령’에 의해 조선시대 관기제도 아래 있었던 기생은 불특정 다수의 대중의 시선에 포획된 ‘대중기생’으로 재탄생되었다. 관기제도의 폐지, 기생단속령, 기생조합, 권번제도에 의해 식민지근대에 새롭게 창출된 ‘기생’의 이미지는 불특정 다수의 ‘대중’이라는 시선 안에 표상됨으로써 이전의 ‘신분제 기생’과는 다른 사회적 맥락 안에 자리매김 되었다. 본론에서는 식민지권력에 의해 통제의 대상이 된 ‘대중기생’에 대하여 기생엽서에 반복하여 재생된 ‘기생’이미지와 이를 보완, 강조하는 텍스트에 표현된 기생담론에 대해 살펴보기로 한다.

Gisaeng, who was under the official discipline system of Joseon Dynasty by ‘regulations for gisaeng’ of the Residency –General of the Japanese Empire, has been recreated as the ‘public gisaeng’ who were captured in the eyes of the public of unspecified individuals. The image of ‘gisaeng’ that has been newly created in colonial modernity by abolition of official discipline system, gisaeng regulation, gisaeng association, and gisaeng call-office system became established in different social context from previous ‘status system of gisaeng’ as it got represented in the ‘public’ eye of unspecified individuals. In body paragraphs, this study intends to investigate discourses on gisaeng represented in texts that supplement and emphasize the image of ‘gisaeng’ that has been repeatedly created in gisaeng postcards for the ‘public gisaeng’ that became the subject of regulation by the colonial power.

1908年統監部の´妓生団束令’と´娼妓団束令’により、朝鮮時代’官妓制度’のもとにあった妓生は不特定多数の大衆の視線に捕らわれた´大衆妓生’として生まれ変わる。官妓制度の廃止、妓生団束令、妓生組合、券番制度により植民地近代に新たに創出された´妓生’のイメージは、大衆の視線の中で表象されることによって以前の´身分制妓生’とは異なる社会的脈絡から捉えられることになる。本論では植民地権力によって社会的統制の対象になった´大衆妓生´について絵葉書により反復して再生された妓生イメージとそれを補完もしくは強調するテキストに注目し、それと関わる言説について議論を進めることにする。