Yi Pyong-do

Yi Pyong-do
Hangul 이병도
Hanja 李丙燾
Revised Romanization I Byeong-do
McCune–Reischauer Yi Pyŏngdo
Pen name
Hangul 두계
Hanja 斗溪
Revised Romanization Dugye
McCune–Reischauer Tugye

Yi Pyong-do[1] (1896, Yongin – 1989) was one of the influential Korean historians but he was also associated with the Japanese view of Korean history.

Japanese collaboration controversy

After the South Korean liberation from the Japan, there was a drive on the part of Korean historians to present a new history of Korea and it was called Han-guksa sillon. Yi Pyong-do was part of this initiative, which was viewed as new in name only because it inherited the colonialist racial perspective inherited from the Japanese scholarship.[2]

Korean historians such as Cho Yun-jae, Son Chin-tae, and Yi In-yong, among other Chindan hakhoe historians followed another direction in their scholarship, which they also labeled "new" - the new nationalist historiography or sin-minjokjuui yoksahak.[3] This group, specifically, excluded Yi Pyong-do due to his association with the colonial government, particularly the Chosenshi henshukai, which was generally viewed as an instrument used to distort Korean history by suppressing or delegitimizing important texts such as the Samguk yusa.[3] Some sources, however, point out that the charge could be political because the purge of collaborators became part of the post-liberation Korean politics.[3]

Yi Pyong-do, himself, addressed the controversy by stressing that he worked for the Chosenshi henshukai to prevent a Japanese distortion of Korean history, a position that echoed the same argument adopted by other historians identified with the Japanese colonial government.[3]

Biography

  • 1927: Started working in Korean History Compilation Committee
  • 1934: Founding Jindan Institute
  • 1945 - 1962: Professor of Seoul Nation University
  • 1955 - 1982: Committee of Korean Nation History Editor
  • 1960: Ministry of Education

Disciples

  • Lee Ki-baik, a disciple of Yi Pyong-do, is famous for his history book "The New History of Korea".
  • Ko Byeongik, Cha Hasun and Yi Kidong are also known as his disciples.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nas.go.kr/member/basic/basic.jsp?s_type=name&s_value=%C0%CC%BA%B4%B5%B5&member_key=10000204
  2. ↑ Pai, Hyung Il (2000). Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-formation Theories. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. p. 121. ISBN 9780674002449.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Em, Henry (2013). The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 146. ISBN 9780822353720.
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