Preliminary Discussions for the Establishment of the So-Called “Gimcheon studies”

In this article, I preliminarily examined the concept and category, core contents, research direction and method of “Gimcheon studies”. Gimcheon studies is a regional study. The target is Gimcheon local culture. The Gimcheon local culture is the total of all types of elements that the Gimcheon people have achieved in the fields of nature, geography, history, cultural heritage, people, religion, life, language and literature, within the time range and space range. In the end, I defined the study of this as Gimcheon studies. In particular, I proposed ‘Choisongseoldang’, ‘Gammunkug’, ‘Socialist Movement’as the main contents to be dealt with in Gimcheon Studies. In addition, I argued that the direction and method of Gimcheon should be establishing a correct identity through an accurate understanding of the uniqueness and universality of Gimcheon area, pursuing a holistic study that harmonizes with the integration between disciplines, and presenting a local policy and direction with practical availability, a future-oriented approach by analyzing past history and current status in time, an objective and balanced study, and a comparative study with other regions. And Gimcheon studies, which includes all the characteristics of Gimcheon's local culture, as this actually prog resses, it will be created and established.