1930~1931년 대전기성회의 충남도청 유치운동

A Drive to Attract the Chungnam Provincial Government Building by the Daejeon Supporting Association between 1930 and 1931

The relocation of the Chungnam Provincial Government Building was the opportunity for Daejeon to get socio-economical gains, let alone to jump up to an administrative center. On November 8, 1930, the Daejeon Supporting Association was organized to systematically and effectively attract the Chungnam Provincial Government Building. The Japanese had great weight in the organization of association members of the Daejeon Supporting Association, and most of them were involved in commerce and industry, on the basis of whose capital, they launched a drive to attract the Chungnam Provincial Government Office. In addition, even the Koreans, who were consistent with the Japanese in their interests, were in activity as a member of the Daejeon Supporting Association. The Daejeon Supporting Association executed petitionary activities for attracting the Chungnam Provincial Government Office against the Japanese Government-General of Korea and political arena in Japan. The Japanese Government-General of Korea decided on the relocation of the provincial government to Daejeon in January, 1931. It’s because Daejeon was the place which was able to heighten the efficiency in operating the local administration by virtue of its traffic convenience. In spite of the decision on the relocation of the Chungnam Provincial Government Office, there still remained a problem of securing the budget for relocation costs of the Provincial Government Office. At that time, the ruling party of Japan sought for a retrenchment policy in an effort to break through economic depression, and to check the ever-rising military influence. In order to check the governor-general Saito, who was an influential person, and the chief of state affairs-Godama, the House of Representative slashed the budget for the relocation of the provincial government building. With the deletion of the budget for the provincial government building, the Daejeon Supporting Association promised the raising of contributions to construction costs of the provincial government office to the Japanese Government-General of Korea, and tried to aggressively solve the difficult situation through the meeting with political figures in Japan. As a result, the budget for the provincial government office came to revive at the House of Peers. The Daejeon Supporting Association conciliated the men of influence by sending its members because it was important to secure the support of a local community. When the issue of budget for relocation of the provincial government building as the Daejeon Supporting Association managed to secure the regional sentiment, each district of Chungnam got to send a telegram of supporting the relocation of the Chungnam Provincial Government Building to Daejeon to the political arena in Japan. Like this, the activity by the Daejeon Supporting Association played an ultimate role in relocating the Chungnam Provincial Building to Daejeon.