1920ㆍ30년대 한국기독교의 절제운동 ; 금주ㆍ금연운동을 중심으로The Temperance Movement of the Korean Church in the 1920s-1930s
- Other Titles
- The Temperance Movement of the Korean Church in the 1920s-1930s
- Authors
- 윤은순
- Issue Date
- Feb-2002
- Publisher
- 한국기독교역사학회
- Citation
- 한국기독교와 역사, v.16, pp 181 - 202
- Pages
- 22
- Journal Title
- 한국기독교와 역사
- Volume
- 16
- Start Page
- 181
- End Page
- 202
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/60742
- ISSN
- 1598-7256
- Abstract
- The Korean temperance movement was carried on for the
purpose of helping the troubled Korean national economy and of
reforming the Korean morale. However, personal frugality was
not enough for the strengthening of the Korean national
The temperance movement of the Korea Church in the 1920s
and the 1930s began with the decline of rural economy and the
influx of decadent culture. The socialist anti-Christian
movement provided an impetus for the campaign. It included
efforts to prohibit licensed prostitution and opium, the promotion
of frugality, as well as the anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol
movement. At the basis were Western missionaries' religious
and ethical teachings. But unlike Western counterparts, the
Korean temperance movement was partly carried on to better
the Korean economy under the Japanese rule.
The Methodist church established the temperance association
headquarter in the annual conference and its local chapters. The
Presbyterian church did not make a central office, but rather
utilized young Christian associations. The Chosun[Korean]
Woman's Temperance Union which was an umbrella organ of the
temperance movement did much for the spread of the
movement.
The Christian temperance movement used lectures, street
demonstrations, and publications for its cause. Street
demonstrations, in particular, staged throughout the country
were most visible. A cooperation with the Chosun-ilbo that
began in 1930 enhanced the campaign's effectiveness and
broadened its audience. The campaign also utilized the Gidok
Sinbo, a leading Christian newspaper, and denominational
economy that suffered under a colonial economic system.
Besides, it was a campaign “within” the system. Despite its
limitations, the Christian temperance movement succeeded in
making the campaign a mass movement, thereby transmitting
Christian social ethics to a larger community. In this sense, it
went in parallel with other nationalist movements under the
Japanese colonial rule
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