-제목: 재북(在北)의사의 식민지 · 해방 기억과 정체성 재편(1945∼1950)

          : 『평양의학대학』, 『함흥의과대학』, 『청진의과대학』자서전을 중심으로 

-저자 : 김진혁 (연구간사)

-출판정보 : 역사문제연구 제34호 (2015.10)

-논문초록

This text studies the consciousness of the doctors residing in North Korea through the biographies of Pyongyang Medical School, Hamheung Medical School, Chungjin Medical School which were produced during 1948∼1949 after the liberation. The doctors who previously, during the Colonial Period, had been enjoyed high social status and economic privileges then faced a series of democratic reforms of North Korean leadership such as criticism of pro-Japanese tendency and industrial nationalization. Within North Korea in which people aimed to establish socialist system and regarded workers and farmers as the pillars of the nation, the doctors needed to adapt to a changed environment by reorganizing their memories of the colonial period and the liberation. They not only emphasized their anti-Japanese nationalism, they also made self-criticism and explanation about the component of origin, career choice, resistance experience, ‘pro-Japanese’ activities in the past through their biographies.After the liberation the majority of doctors contributed not just in medical fields but in many other fields to build a new society. Some doctors, however, harbored dissatisfaction towards the social reform and the modification of structure in North Korea which, ironically, is demonstrated in the process of self-criticism. The North Korean leadership pushed aside the health care nationalization policy to deal with it later so as to prevent the doctors from escaping to the South Korea and to stabilize their life due to the lack of medical personnel. But health care nationalization gained momentum after the liberation before the Korean War. The conscious of the doctors who escaped to the South Korea during the Korean War can be understood.