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[Draft Introduction – English, 5,000-word paper on Lee Jong-man]
Introduction: Reclaiming a Forgotten Visionary – Lee Jong-man and the Ethics of Korean Modernity
Lee Jong-man (1885–1977) stands as one of the most enigmatic and understudied figures in the intellectual and socio-economic history of modern Korea. At once a gold mining tycoon, an educational reformer, a rural community builder, and a post-liberation defector to North Korea, Lee defies simple ideological classification. While his economic stature under Japanese colonial rule aligns him with the industrial bourgeoisie, his social philosophy—rooted in what he called Daedong Thought—prefigures communitarian ideals that challenge both capitalist individualism and state socialism.
This paper aims to reconstruct and critically examine Lee’s thought and practice based primarily on a comprehensive 450-page Korean sourcebook, The Life and Thought of Lee Jong-man: The Practice of Daedong and the Construction of a Rural Utopia (ed. Kang Jong-il, 2021). While previous accounts of Lee’s life tend to rely on secondary summaries or frame him as a curious anomaly—a “capitalist turned communist”—this study engages deeply with underutilized primary materials contained in the sourcebook: his essays, speeches, educational charters, land reform plans, and reflections written both before and after his migration to the North.
Lee’s vision was not speculative philosophy but lived praxis: he sought to construct Daedong Village, a cooperative agricultural and educational settlement founded on the moral regeneration of labor, mutual respect, and collective ownership. His educational experiments rejected rote learning in favor of “practical education” (silmu gyoyuk), wherein schools were also workplaces and students engaged in meaningful productive labor. He proposed a radical pedagogical reordering in which “the workplace is the school, and the school is the workplace.”
This paper argues that Lee’s intellectual contributions should not be judged by postwar ideological binaries—left vs. right, South vs. North—but rather situated within the broader ethical challenge of Korean modernity: how to preserve collective dignity, economic justice, and moral autonomy in a time of colonial oppression, political division, and economic upheaval. Lee’s vision of Daedong is thus read as a “third way” that deserves renewed attention, particularly in a moment when Korea once again faces questions of inequality, disconnection, and communal erosion.
In retracing Lee’s forgotten experiment in ethical communalism, this study proposes that his work can inform contemporary debates in postcolonial thought, rural sociology, and alternative education. His life is not merely a historical curiosity—it is a mirror for our present, and perhaps, a guidepost for a more just future.
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이 영문 서론 초안은 약 500단어 규모이며,
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