Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea by Gi-Wook Shin

Author:Gi-Wook Shin [Shin, Gi-Wook]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, Korea, Social Science, Minority Studies
ISBN: 9780295805122
Google: t7IyBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014-07-18T02:45:48+00:00

In Manchuria, on the other hand, vast uncultivated areas initially attracted starvation-driven Korean peasants; but after the mid-1930s, industrialization also beckoned migrants.5

Also, Japanese policy toward Korean industrialization shifted in the 1930s. Previously the colonial government's main economic concern was agricultural production. When Korea became a colony in 1910, the colonial government foresaw maintaining the country as a simple agricultural colony and market for Japanese manufactured products, including Japanese cotton textiles. In general, only industries that promoted agriculture—such as railroads and rice mills—were allowed to develop, typifying what world-system theorists term a “core-periphery” relationship. But official impediments to Korean industrialization eased after the establishment of Manchukuo in 1932, and even more rapidly and deliberately after the Sino-Japanese War erupted in 1937 (see Woo 1991, chap. 2). While Korean industrialization by 1945 was far from complete, some sectors, such as the heavy and chemical industries, expanded rather rapidly in the 1930s (Eckert 1991). Korea became a “semi-periphery” country within the Japanese empire or the “Northeast Asian political economy” vis-à-vis newly acquired and relatively undeveloped peripheries like Manchuria and North China (Cumings 1984b).

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