가족이 짊어진 구호와 자활 : 1950∼60년대 합동결혼과 그 주인공 = Family relief and self-support : Joint weddings and their protagonists

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The joint weddings in the 1950s were relief measures before and after the Korean War. The splendid and magnificent wedding ceremonies were held by means of cost sharing with government and governmental organizations; furthermore, even the National Assembly bore the costs during the Korean War. Emphasizing the fact that disabled veterans sacrificed themselves for the nation, people had to share the pains and help them live normal lives through marriage, and consequently joint weddings were promoted. After the Korean War ended, the government established an organization to carry out an usual joint wedding two times every year and tried to prepare funds to push joint weddings nationwide. As joint weddings in the 1950s were carried out in order to help male subjects live normal lives, their counterparts (i.e., women) were often unknown, and no one was interested in their family lives after marriage. In the 1960s, members of the exploitation corps and labor groups were married by means of joint weddings mostly to women in shelters, and persons such as Min, Jeong-sik and Kim, Chun-sam, who were not directly supervised by the government, composed organizations and carried out the events; the joint weddings during this period forced couples to abandon their past lives and start new ones. As the vagrants had no families or left them, disharmony with family members largely affected them. Although they lived as “family members” in their organizations, the state and society regarded them as problematic groups having to be rooted out. The subjects getting married were persons whose lives became far different than in the past due to war and poverty, which is something they shared in common. The state considered them to require families in order to support themselves rather than depend upon the state and society; furthermore, the state wished every subject to be constrained within the family by forming “normalized” families, and expected them to carry out their given roles faithfully via these families. Those were the shares of newly formed families to bear the tasks, living normal lives after completing the war in the 1950s and handling their “injured bodies”, and expanding farmlands in the 1960s in order to increase food production. As the minimum foundation for these families to live by themselves, the method which the government carried out actively until the first half of the 1960s was to cultivate and reclaim wastelands before settling them in these lands. Returning to farming was the best goal to be achieved by families formed through joint weddings and was also an example of self-support in the 1950s-1960s.