의정부시는 언제부터 의정부로 불리었을까? ― 지명 유래의 관점에서 본 의정부 일대 둔전 운영 양상 = From Farm to City: Place Name Origins and the History of Dunjeon Management in Uijeongbu

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This article examines the operation of the Uijeongbu Dunjeon(義政府屯田) and the lives of its tenant farmers(屯民) through the lens of place-name history. Although the exact date of the Uijeongbu Dunjeon's establishment remains uncertain, toponyms such as Uijeongbu-jeom(義政府店) and Uijeongbu-pyeong (義政府坪) were already in common use among local residents and travelers by at least the late eighteenth century. These names emerged because the cultivated fields under the jurisdiction of Uijeongbu(議政府) lay in this area along the Gyeonghung Road(慶興大路) connecting Seoul to Wonsan in Hamgyeong Province(咸鏡道), where growing commercial traffic had given rise to post-villages in the Yangju region.
In the late nineteenth century, jurisdiction over the land passed first to Seonhigung(宣禧宮) and then to Naejangwon(內藏院), which raised land taxes and imposed additional levies. The tenant farmers responded with collective tax refusals(拒納) and petitions, securing partial concessions in 1904. Nevertheless, the land was subsequently transferred Gyeongniwon(經理院) to Takjibu(度支部) in 1907 and following Joseon-Japan annexation finally dissolved through the land survey project(土地調査事業) and the Yeokdunto Special Ordinance(驛屯土特別處分令) by Government-General of Joseon.
Though Dunjeon itself disappeared in Uijeongbu, the place name Uijeongbu survived. The opening of a railway station(驛舍) in 1911 and the administrative designation of Uijeongbu-ri(議政府里) in 1912 were the immediate catalysts, but underlying these official acts was the accumulated geographical experience of generations of tenant farmers who had long called this land their hometown.