A Study on the Formation Process of Korea Concession and Land Related Problems

Abstract

This study analyses land related problems and its features which stems from a concession established by the imperialist countries from the late Joseon Dynasty to the Japanese colonial period. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature review related to the installation of the treaty ports and a concession was conducted and a chronological analysis was applied. As a result of the study, the East China Sea and the Japan were opened by the Western powers in prior to the East Asia region, Korea was an open harbor port led by Japan, which had experience installing an open harbor. In this circumstance there was a system that allowed foreigners to freely reside and exercise exertion rights (exercise one s extraterritoriality), which was a disadvantage to Joseon. In addition, the Japanese-style land area unit Pyeong was used in Japan s highly influential prefecture, and later became the basis of the unit of land used in the 1910 land survey project.