Sunchon National University Institute of Humanities Completes First Half Series of War History Document Collection

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon National University (President Ko Young-jin) Humanities Research Institute recently announced on the 23rd that it has completed the first half research project series titled "War and Cultural Planning" through the publication of the "War and Institutions·Culture Data Collection."

The Suncheon National University Humanities Research Institute planned to publish annual data collections focusing on ▲propaganda ▲mobilization strategy ▲institutions in line with the first half research theme "War and Cultural Planning" to carry out the Ministry of Education's university-focused research institute (Humanities and Social Sciences Research Institute) project titled "Historical and Cultural Effects of the Asia-Pacific War and the Korean War" since 2017.

Accordingly, starting with the "War Propaganda Data Collection" (2018), followed by the "War and Mobilization Strategy Data Collection" (2019), the institute sequentially published these volumes, and finally completed the first half series by publishing the "War and Institutions·Culture Data Collection" in May this year.

In particular, the "War and Institutions·Culture Data Collection," the final achievement of the three-year first half data series publication, is a fundamental resource on various institutions that sought to reorganize the daily lives of the people and restructure wartime life. This extensive volume of over 900 pages contains 137 selected materials that reveal the mechanisms and effects of various institutions devised for conducting war during the Asia-Pacific War and the Korean War.

Suncheon National University Humanities Research Institute Director Kang Sung-ho said, "This data collection was compiled with the purpose of understanding the impact of various institutions such as laws, regulations, and mass organizations that justified and actualized wartime mobilization and the wartime reorganization of daily life on the consciousness and behavior of the people." He added, "This concretizes the modern power's project of nation formation in relation to the people and deepens the understanding of wartime living conditions, thereby summarizing the first half research theme 'War and Cultural Planning' and opening the way for the second half research theme 'Wartime System and Daily Life.'"

Meanwhile, the Humanities Research Institute at Suncheon National University is also on the verge of completing the first half research series. Among the total three volumes, "State Power and Ideology" (2019) and "War and Mobilization Culture" (2020) have already been published, and "Institutions and Cultural Phenomena" is scheduled to be published by the end of this month. Additionally, in the second half of the research starting from September 2020, a total of six volumes comprising three data collections and three research collections will be published.

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