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본 연구는 1905년 7월에 설립된 여성단체 대한부인회가 운영하였던 잠업 강습소에 대해 살펴본 것이다. 1905년 한·일 양국 부인들의 사교모임이 활 발해지면서 주한 일본공사관 관리의 부인이 한일부인회를 조직하자는 주장 을 하게 되고, 이에 이옥경이 합세하여 대한부인회가 조직되었다. 회장에 친일적인 성향의 이옥경이 선출되고, 임원에 다수의 통감부 관리 부인들이 임명되었다. 대한부인회에서는 여성들을 대상으로 잠업강습소를 설치·운영 하고자 계획하고 궁내부소속 용산 양잠장을 하사받았다. 대한부인회 잠업 강습소는 원래 여성을 대상으로 한 교육기관이었지만, 초기에는 여성 지원자가 거의 없었으므로 남학생을 모집하여 운영하였다. 여성 입학지원자가 점차 증가하게 되자 1909년부터는 여성만을 선발해서 교육을 하였다. 잠업 강습소에서는 구두시험과 작문·산술 시험을 거쳐 생도를 선발하였으며, 4 ∼6개월 동안 양잠에 관한 이론과 실습교육을 하였다. 잠업강습소는 1906년부터 1909년까지 4년 동안 총 92명의 졸업생 및 수업생을 배출하였다. 잠업 강습소 졸업생들은 농상공부 기수로 임용되거나, 관립·사립 양잠학교 교사로 진출하였다. 졸업생 가운데는 양잠학교를 설립한 사람도 있었으며, 양잠학회와 잠업연구소를 설립하였다. 잠업강습소에서는 양잠 교육 외에도 잠 종과 뽕나무 묘목을 배포하거나, 생도 및 지방 양잠가들에게 잠종·양잠 도구의 구입을 중개하였다. 또한 1907년 경성박람회에 양잠 관련물을 출품하기도 했으며, 친잠례 및 황족·고관들의 양잠지도를 하였다. 1910년 2월 일제가 대한부인회 잠업강습소를 관립여자잠업강습소로 개편, 운영하게 되면서 잠업강습소는 폐지되었다.


This study aimed to examine the activities of the Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office; a women's organization created in July 1905. In 1905, as the women's social gatherings between Joseon and Japan became active, the wife of a Japanese legation official in Joseon insisted on organizing the Joseon-Japan Women's Association, and Lee Ok-kyung joined forces to create the Daehan Women's Association. Lee Ok-kyung, who was pro-Japanese, was elected as the chairman, and a number of wives of the Tonggambu(統監府) officials were appointed as the executives. The Daehan Women's Association planned to set up and operate a Training Office for women and was granted the Sericultural Experiment Station in Yongsan, which belonged to the Gungnaebu(宮內府). The Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office was originally an educational institution for women, but there were few female applicants in the beginning, so it recruited and operated male students. As the number of female applicants for admission gradually increased, only women were selected and educated from 1909. The Daehan Women's Association- Sericulture Training Office selected students after oral and written and arithmetic tests, and trained them in theory and practice for four to six months. The Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office produced a total of 92 graduates in the four-year period from 1906 to 1909. After graduation, the students of the Sericulture Training Office were appointed as engineers of the Ministry of Agriculture, or became teachers of the Government Administration and Private Sericulture Training Office. Some of the graduates established Sericulture Schools, and established sericulture-related societies and sericulture research institutes. In addition to the Sericulture training, the Sericulture Training Office also distributed silkworm eggs and mulberry seedlings, or mediated the purchase of silkworm eggs and Sericulture tools to students and local sericulture farmers. It also featured silkworm-related items at the 1907 Gyeongseong(京城) Exposition. In addition, Queen's Chinjam-rye(親蠶禮) guidance and sericulture education for royal and governmen officials were provided. In February 1910, when the imperial Japan reorganized and operated the Daehan Women's Association-Sericulture Training Office as a governmental women's Sericulture Training Office, the Sericulture Training Office was abolished.