Abstract

This thesis intends to investigate aspects of censorship of Korean journalism under Japanese Imperialism and a tendency of editorials related to the laws published in major magazines by period, so that it intends to verify the law magazine materials of this period their historical usefulness. Therefore, the thesis, first of all, surveys the outlines of Japanese censorship of press implemented from the 1910s to the 1930s, and its influences on articles in the law magazines Secondly, tendencies of editorials about the law appeared to the magazines in each period are as follows; Above all, magazines in the early period, which came to be published in earnest in the period of ‘Daehanjekuk,’ seemed to focus on introducing and emphasizing the necessity of the laws and governance by the laws in modern nation to people. However, following changes in Japanese colonial policy after the 1910s, magazines changed little by little in their publication or contents period by period. Especially after the 1940s, it seemed that most magazines were pro-Japanese and were under censorship to justify Japanese warmongering Thirdly, the thesis analysed articles about the law, most of which were focused on their title, by period. On the whole, those articles unfolded various analyses, critical editorials or debates among writers about regulations that Japan enacted so that they are very helpful to figure out a circumstance of the time through changes in the laws. Therefore, it seems that magazine materials are estimated to be very highly useful to understand some features and limitations of the laws such as Newspaper Act, The Press Law, The Maintenance of the Public Order Act, Education Ordinance, Temple Ordinance and laws related to wartime mobilization after 1940 and social changes of the time.