A Study of the causes of ‘badangssaum’ through Recordsand Oral History

This article deals with the records and memories of badangssaum between Jongdal Village and Siheung Village, neighboring villages in eastern Jeju Island. The badangssaum is a fight between haenyeo including local residents over the boundaries of seafood harvesting and village fishing grounds. Why did the badangssaum occur in these two villages. We would like to find clues to analysis and understanding of the concept of village fishing grounds and fishing grounds conflicts in Jeju using several criteria for analyzing them. After examining various existing public records, oral statements were recorded from residents of both villages who actually experienced the badangssaum. Through this, I was able to confirm the experience at the time and hear various positions and reasons as to why badangssaum took place. The badangssaum was caused by various factors in institutional, economic, political, ecological and topographical aspects. The issue of recognition of customary fishing and changes after the enactment of the Fisheries Cooperative Act became an institutional background, and occurred at a time when the economic value of seaweed was high in a space near the border of a fishing ground with many seaweeds. Both villages produced members of the National Assembly at a time when local politics was absent. This became one of the backgrounds for the residents' badangssaum, and ecological and topographical factors such as the location of the yeo surrounding the village and tidal currents also became the cause of the badangssaum.