朝鮮における普通銀行の成立と展開
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概要
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Little is known about the financial system in Korea. There are some papers on the period before 1910, but almost nothing about: the colonial period except some brief bank histories. The purpose of this article is to clarify some characteristics of the financial system during the colonial period in Korea by analyzing managerial conditions of commercial banks and the polcies of the Japanese Government in Korea. Commercial banks had been founded over Korea since the middle of 1910s, which were different from ones at the end of the Li Dynasty. It means they were purely private ones which had nothing to do with the government and didn't get any privileges from it. The founders are categolized into two, one is Japanese successful people among the immigrants in earlier periods and the other is Korean local rising landowners. At that time in Korea, it was this financial sector that was the most vivid investigating field. The primary function of these banks was to establish the economic relation between Japan and Korea within Korea, which was expanding and getting close at that moment. These banks were not able to supply the necessary amount of money with an increase in demand for money. Because the collecting deposit of these banks were interfered with by the colonial economic structure, which had very weak industry on the one hand and very profittable agriculture on the other. In addition to this condition, economic panics and depressions made the managerial condition of commercial banks very much worse. In Korea, the Japanese Government and the Bank of Korea protected these commercial banks positively in order to expand the credit structure. When they confronted a managerial crisis, they were rescued by the Bank of Korea with its financing, in other words, they were subordinated to it. This very fact. became a crucial reason to prevent from the independence of these banks and consequently to enforce the amalgamation policy of each bank on the initiative of the Bank of Korea. As long as this weakness of commercial banks was caused by the colonial economic structure, however, it was inevitable that the Japanese Government could not succeed in the promotion policy of commercial banks in the end. After all, Japan failed to establish a stable credit structure in Korea.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1983-05-25