Toward a new history of Japanese language education in postcolonial Korea: Focusing on the 1950s through the 1980s

本研究考察了在后殖民的朝鲜(1950-1970)背景下，日本教育话语的变化过程。语言意识形态不仅与语言有关(Woolard，1998)，而且始终处于社会地位，并与社会中的身份和权力问题联系在一起。我关注了三个不同的时期，在这三个不同的时期，后殖民时代的韩国形成了单一语言的思想和实践：1)20世纪50年代，政府将反日情绪等同于民族主义；2)60年代，公众希望日本成为一种现代化的形式；3)70年代，恢复高中日语教育符合国家通过旅游业和性产业赚取外国资本的政策。

This research has examined the process through which the discourse on Japanese education has changed in the context of postcolonial Korea (1950-1970). Ideologies of language are not about language alone (Woolard, 1998), but are always socially situated and tied to questions of identity and power in societies. I focused on three different periods through which the ideology and practice of monolingualism was instituted in postcolonial Korea: 1) the 1950s, where the government equated anti-Japanese sentiment with nationalism; 2) the 1960s, where the public desired Japan as a form of modernity and 3) the 1970s, where the resumption of Japanese education in high schools were in accordance with the state policy on earning foreign capital through the tourism and sex industry.