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The Present Condition of the Fisheries in Busan and Gyungnam Area in the Modern and Postmodern Times and the Plans for Collecting the Related Data Kang, Jae-Soon It is undeniable fact that the research on the history of fisheries in Busan and Gyungnam area in modern and postmodern times mostly relies on Japanese-written data, especially the few, secondary and photoprinted ones like The Record of Korean Fisheries. When we relies on the Japanese-written data in the research on the history of Korean fisheries in modern times, likewise, we are easily trapped by the “modernity” that those data emphasize that it will be difficult to grasp the “colonialism” that is internalized in it. Another problem in the research on the history of the fisheries in Busan and Gyungnam area in the modern and postmodern times is the rupture from the history of the fisheries in the premodern times. It should be a more urgent task than anything else, for clarifying the fisheries by Chosun people in the transitional period toward the modern times and the subjective growth of Chosun fishing people, to excavate Korean-written data related to the premodern times. It is all the more required for understanding the growth and variation of the fisheries in the premodern times toward the modern and capitalistic fisheries that had been effected since the latter period of Chosun dynasties. The overcoming of the opposing perspectives of the “discourse on modernization” and the “discourse on exploitation” must be started from avoiding the dependency on Japanese-written data by excavating new Korean- written data.