Modern knowledge culture and Publishing activities of Sam-Cheon-Risa(三千里社)

The purpose of this article is to review the historical aspect of knowledge culture by examining the publishing activities of Sam-Cheon-Risa(三千里社). Sam-Cheon-Risa was the longest-running magazine among the magazines that published current affairs magazines during the colonial period. At the same time, it led the publication of literary anthologies and exerted considerable influence in the book market in the 1930s. After liberation, it resumed publishing activities, albeit for a short period, by publishing current affairs magazines and various books. However, research on anthologies’s publishing activities is limited to the colonial period. This is due to the common sense that the division of the history of knowledge culture is limited to the colonial period based on the political event of liberation. In order to review not only the entirety of anthologies’s publishing activities but also the continuity and discontinuity of modern knowledge culture, a macroscopic awareness of the problem of examining the history of knowledge culture up to the liberation is necessary. This article is the first step toward such an attempt.