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"Ongsan Gangmok" is a book which reforms the way of administration of countries. The previous researches are two reference manual of this book, written by Bae Hyun-sook, the researcher of the National Library of Korea and Baek Jin-woo, Department of Overseas Korean Studies Data Center. Those only introduced the overall content and format of the book, but did not provide any information of author and the time book written. But there were some clues to estimate about the author and the period of writing. The basis for estimating the author and the book written are the contents of the chapter four and five, through this contents I could find out following results. First, the author of this book is the man in the late 19th century. the author mentioned about patrol and signal fire in chapter five, and those should be organized well before the war outbreak. And he also asserted that importance of telegram, this means the author lives when the signal and telegram coexist. As the time the equipment appears were 1885 and the signal was abolished was 1895, I could figure out this book must be written between 1885 and 1895. Second, the author was a warrior studied traditional knowledge of Confucianism and historical knowledge. He introduced himself as a humble rank man in preface of the book. He cited not only many books about Confucianism, and also about military strategy and tactics belongs to book name “Mugyung Chil seo”. He firstly quoted the text of those books and insisted his thinking at the after it. He also emphasized that a warrior should be a higher rank than an ordinary people because they are in charge of protecting the country. and he also mentioned that regardless what he rank, if he or she have brave and outstanding martial ability, they should be highly awarded. Third, the author is a Korean. He mentioned the great scholar of Joseon Dynasty “Mr. Yulgok” and the martial book named “Muyedobotongji”, “Byeonghakjinam” published in Joseon Dynasty. At the end of the book, he cited two examples the record of the king of Sui and Tang Dynasty, which is about the defeated by Goguryeo, one of the country in Three Kingdom Period. In this book, the author presented ways to overcome crisis on 19th century, such as the increase of the national army. It is worth that he shared the similar ideological line with 19th East Asian intellectuals, and he accepted Western scientific technique rather than rejecting there culture and technology. It is also meaningful that he showed a message to Western forces by mentioning the result of war due to individual greed, and also reminded past record of overcoming the crisis to the public. However, he still presents an abstract solution that does not fit reality, it reveals the limitation that he was an intellectual who could not escape from Neo-Confucianism.

한국어

본고는 국립중앙도서관 소장본 『甕算綱目』을 분석하여 이 책의 저자 및 저술 시기와 이 책의 의의와 한계를 밝히고자 하였다. 이 책은 19세기 후반에 저술되었을 것으로 추정된다. 책의 내용에서 저자는 사전에 봉수를 점검할 것을 주장하였고, 전보(電報)를 주장하였다. 전보가 처음으로 조선에 가설된 것은 1885년이며, 봉수제가 폐지된 것은 1895년이므로, 이 책은 1885년~1895년 사이에 저술되었을 것으로 추정할 수 있다. 한편 저자는 이 책의 서문에서 자신을 ‘소원하고 미천한 무인(踈逖武傖)’으로 지칭하고 있으며, 무예서인 『무경칠서』의 서적 일부 내용을 언급하고 있을 뿐 아니라, 뛰어난 무예만 있으면 누구든 신분과 관계없이 높은 벼슬까지 이를 수 있어야 한다고 주장한 것으로 보아 신분이 무인일 가능성이 높다. 또한, 저자가 조선의 인물과 서적, 그리고 조선의 역사적 사건을 언급하고 있는데 이를 통해 저자가 조선인일 것이라 판단하였다. 저자는 이 책에서 무비의 증대와 무관의 대우 개선 등 상무적인 요소를 당시 상황을 극복해 나갈 방법으로 제시하였다. 이는 동일 시기 동아시아의 지식인들이 현실 위기 타개 방책으로 공통 제시하였던 사상으로, 19세기 무인 신분의 지식인이 동아시아 지식인들과 사상적인 맥을 같이했을 뿐 아니라, 서양 문물과 기술을 배척하기보다는 ‘나라의 부국과 강병을 위해 관심을 갖고 받아들여야 한다’는 입장을 취하고 있다는 데 의의가 있다고 할 수 있다. 또한 개인의 탐욕으로 인해 시작한 전쟁의 말로가 어떠한 것인지 책의 마지막 내용을 통해 개항을 요구하는 서구 세력에게 메시지를 던지는 한편, 위기를 극복해 낸 사례를 민중에게 환기하여 독자들에게 극복 의지를 전달했다는 데에도 의의가 있다.