- Author: Hong, Yang-Hee
- Title: Dissonance of 'Law' and 'Blood' - the Practices and the Cracks by the System of Sasaenga(私生兒) in Colonial Korea
- Language: Korean
- Journal: Critical Studies on Modern Korean History 18(1): 316-351
- Publication Year: 2014
- Publisher: The Institute for Korean Historical Studies
■ Abstract This paper is to examine about practice and work/operation of 'sasaenga'/'sasaengja'(illegitimate child) system made by the dual principle of 'monogamous marriage' and 'paternal line' for construction of family in Colonial Korea. In particular, this research is focused on the crack inherent in family law and the plosive sound flown out of legal principle inventing 'sasaenga'. There are affiliation proceedings, paternity suits and so on based on disagreement between 'legal blood' and 'biological blood'. These lawsuits exposed together both sides of obsession to and rupture of "paternal blood" of colonial Korean. Futhermore, The lawsuits involved in 'paternal line' are attributed to outrageous gender-specific family law which women, that is wife and daughters, are disinherited when the head of house is dead. Ultimately, I would like to serve somewhat the foundations of self-examination and rethinking about family law producing abnormal and heterogeneous Others marginalized through this paper. |
