日帝下 土着綿工業資本 性格에 관한 硏究 (2)

Characters of the native capitals in the Korean cotton industry under the colonial period (2)

Korean cotton industry was influenced by the industrialization of the Japanese cotton industry under the Japanese rule. At that time the most important issues of the Japanese cotton industrialization were export expansion of the cotton products and stable supply of raw materials, for example cotton, Therefore the industrialization of the Korean cotton industry was dependent on the modernized Japanese cotton industry. The Korean cotton industry grew up in unequilibrium type, And the Korean cotton industry was developing into the compensating pattern to the Japanese cotton industry until 1919. But this pattern was changed after 1920. Causes of the changing pattern were the establishment of Japanese modern cotton firms and the massive inflows of the native capitals on the Korean cotton industry between the the decade of 19205. These factors contributed to the equilibrium growth of the Korean cotton industry. The leading group of the cotton industrialization was the native merchants. The native merchants grew up the entrepreneurial class by the business activity, And became the burgeoise. Some of the native capitals developed as the anti-colonial capitals, capitals, for example, Anju trading company and Chong-ro’s drapery merchants. The 1920s was the most important periods for the industrialization of the Korean cotton industry.