≪延邊民報≫를 통해 본 해방 직후 延邊人民民主大同盟의 성립과 활동

The Establishment and Movement of Yanbian People’s Democratic Union Right after Liberation Observed through ‘Yanbian Newspaper’

The Yanbian Peoples Democratic Union (延邊人民民主大同盟, ‘YPDU’ hereinafter), a social organization comprising of people from Joseon(朝鮮), established at Yanbian, China on November 1945, is known to have had enormous effect towards the people of Joseon residing in Yanbian and towards the Yanbian society after the liberation. This research, by centering on the historical resources of the YPDU s Yanbian Newspaper(≪延邊民報≫), which has not been utilized at full-scale, has systematically observed the organization’s establishment and activities. The Joseon socialists who had been residing in Yanbian even before the liberation, had put effort in the organization of the public group for the chance of liberation. However, as the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allies(東北抗日聯軍) of the Communist Party of China(中國共産黨, ‘CPC’ hereinafter) appeared at Yanbian, Joseon socialists were assimilated. Moreover, the federation which had been formed as an organization voluntarily, had reorganized themselves as the YPDU which had been acquiring leadership from the federation. In other words, the decisive factor in the establishment of the YPDU was influenced by the affiliation of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allies of the CPC. Even after the establishment of the YPDU, they were active by directly acknowledging the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allies’ situational awareness. The YPDU, which can be claimed to be a ‘masterpiece’ created by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allies, had conducted wide activities. However, due to the spread of the Chinese Civil War and the powerful class alignment that followed afterwards, the YPDU slowly entered the dissolution phase in the mid 1946. As the Chinese Civil War spread to the province of Manchu, the YPDU which was active in claiming liberation, could not but force to dissolve. However, the reason to why Yanbian’s socialistic reformation could have been finished in time, was due to the Joseon socialists and the YPDU’s actions.