The term ‘modern’, in broader sense, refers to the concepts like modernity,modernization, modernism and the like, which came from Westernization impling therecognition of indigenous culture as being inferior to Western culture by comparison alongwith the expanded influences of the Empire of Japan. These concepts, however, ratherthan evolving from Western standards, came into being as a form of civilization led byJapan which had already tasted the fruits of modernization by 1920s. Since 1920s, the policy of, so-called, reconstructing Asian countries by Japan came tocreate eastern way of modernism, as a new East Asian trend mainly revealed in Chinawhich was against colonization after Japan’s invasion and conquest of Manchuria.Therefore, Eastern‘modern’unlike Western one could be understood in the widespreadterminology,‘Modern(摩登)’in Shanghai, reflecting consciousness like‘Fashion’or‘Trend’in female images on a variety of visual media. By 1930s it was the most notablethat‘modern’was accepted as something similar with‘Fashion’, or‘Trend’in socio-cultural contexts. These atmosphere had led commercial arts to enable to communicatewith the public in a great deal of supports and success in Shanghai which was widelyregarded as the citadel for the inflow of Western culture, among which transformations infemale images were remarkable as a representative form of culture. It is also remarkablethat‘historical modernity’transforming from the feudal age to modern society wasconsidered a synchronic modernity, and nationalism was regarded as a sort of beingmodern, while involved in the newly-changed female images as a fashion mode. Changes in fashion including hair style in Shanghai by 1930s, as a way ofexpressions showing what was modern through commercial artistic productions, wereeasily noticed in visual media as an outlet of modern women’s inner desire revealing theirpursuit for new mode of life in metropolitan cities. As a characteristic of the time creating anew code of visual female images, it is notable that there existed another form of‘modern’satisfying socio-cultural needs of the general public seeking for being‘modern’.
The purpose of this thesis is a searching out the characteristics of Japanese dwellings implanted into Korea in the time of the rule of Japanese imperialism and its influences on Korean modern dwellings especially in the time of 1930's. At the early stage of the colonial time(1905~1919), the central corridor type Japanese dwellings were implanted into Korea for the Japanese official residences. The central corridor type Japanese dwelling was an urban modern dwelling compromised between Japanese style and western style and distinguished by an outer-court type plan, Japanese entrance hall, central corridor and western style reception room. After the 1920's the central corridor type Japanese dwellings have spreaded itself and became a prototype of a modern dwelling in Korea. The characteristics of the central corridor type Japanese dwellings have influenced on the Korean high class dwellings and Korean architects' proposals for modern dwelling in the time of 1930's. By the implantation and spread of the central corridor type Japanese dwellings, Korean modern dwellings at the same time have affected and undergone transformation. The aspects of transformation were ; The outbreaking of the Japanese style entrance and central corridor, the transformation of MaDang from the inner court with a function of circulation into the outer court garden with plants and the transformation of Korean dwellings from the rural inner court type into the urban outer court type. The central corridor type Japanese dwellings implanted into Korea in the time of the rule of Japanese imperialism makes function as a precedent of a modern urban dwelling to Korean and makes Korean dwellings transform from the rural inner court type into the urban outer court type.