주한 미 평화봉사단 연구동향 및 소식지 자료해제 (Strangers’ Elaboration: Yobosayo, Jambong and other Peace Corps Volunteers’ Newsletters in Korea)

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· 발행기관 : 한국교육사학회
· 수록지 정보 : 한국교육사학 / 42권 / 3호 / 1 ~ 42페이지
· 저자명 : 서나래

초록

평화봉사단(The Peace Corps)은 미국 정부가 자국의 봉사단원을 선발하고 훈련한 뒤 개발도상국으로 파견하여 기술협력을 실시하는 단체다. 우리나라에는 1966년에 처음 들어와서 영어교육과 보건교육 분야에서 기술협력을 담당하다가 1981년 철수하였다. 전국에 흩어진 평화봉사단원들은 서로 소통하기 위하여 자발적으로 소식지를 만들어 간행하였다. 본 연구는 주한 미 평화봉사단의 연구동향을 살피고, 새로운 연구에 기여할 평화봉사단 소식지를 해제할 것이다. 평화봉사단의 소식지 "Yobosayo"와 "짬뽕", 그리고 기타 소식지를 개괄하면서 사료적 가치와 한계를 살펴볼 것이다. 본 연구에서 살펴본 주한 미 평화봉사단 연구 동향과 소식지 해제는, 가르치고 배우는 것을 통해 다층적인 문화교류를 가능하게 했던 한 시절에 대한 토대 작업이 된다.

영어초록

The Peace Corps is an independent agency and volunteer program run by the United States Government that provides technical cooperation to countries in need of social and economic aid. The Peace Corps began dispatching volunteers to Korea in 1966 to volunteer in the fields of English education and health, and the Peace Corps withdrew its program in 1981 due to the drastic economic development in Korea. Between 1966 and 1981, Peace Corps volunteers spontaneously published their own newsletters to communicate with each other. Peace Corps volunteers shared their vivid emotions, such as homesickness, culture-shock, or gratified rural life gossip, and tips for Korean life. Several volunteers worked to complete the monthly newsletter. The Korea Peace Corps volunteers’ newsletters were deconstructed for this paper thanks to the digitized works of Peace Corps/Korea materials at the University of Southern California, Korean Heritage Library. This paper provides an introduction to Yobosayo, Jambong, and other newsletters and their unique characteristics. At first, Yobosayo was a regular newsletter that was circulated among the volunteers, who were spread out throughout the country. However, after Aug. 1970, the periodic newsletters disappeared. There reasons that the volunteers could not publish their own official newsletters, such as budget cutdown, the political stance of Peace Corps Seoul Office, censorship, etc. Regular newsletters did not exist again until 1977. From 1977 to 1981, the newsletter, Jambong was issued monthly. However, it appears to have been an official house organ of Peace Corps/Korea rather than a volunteer-initiated newsletter. The newsletters are valuable as historical materials but also have limitations. During the period of publication, explicit rules existed to prevent public commentary about the host country’s political issues. Moreover, the Peace Corps volunteers inevitably experienced authoritarian society in Korea prevalent at that time. Ultimately, despite of the limitation of Peace Corps Volunteers' newsletters, they provide a lens to investigate actual activities and lives of Peace Corps volunteers in 1966-1981 Korea.

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