A Study on the Bibliography of Documentation on Gisaeng and Changgi and the Domestic and Overseas Performance Activities of Gisaeng: Focusing on the gisaeng-related records composed in May 1910

In this study, a detailed and accurate analysis was conducted on the contents of these gisaeng-related documents while maintaining academic objectivity and neutrality, focusing on the Japan tour of the gisaeng of Hanseong Gisaeng Association and domestic Gaeseong performance (May 1910), which is the only record delineating the entire process and relevant details, from the planning of the Japan tour of the gisaeng of Hanseong Gisaeng Association and domestic Gaeseong performance to the petition and approval of the Japanese Superintendent's Metropolitan Police Agency among four document record groups that constitute documentation on Gisaeng and Changgi. Regarding the Hanseong Gisaeng Association's Japan Tour, an article on the Japanese negotiating and contracting process with eight gisaengs from the Hanseong Gisaeng Association for Performance was first published on April 14, 1910 in Hwangseong Newspaper and Daehan Maeil Newspaper Korean-Chinese Edition. A month later, by May 9, 1910, a contract signing was under way, as the personnel composition and employment costs of the Japan tour group (KRW 1,500 → 1,580 → 1,550) were adjusted, and a contract and a petition were prepared, in the order of petition for a performance in Japan by two Japanese and eight gisaeng from the Hanseong Gisaeng Association on May 11, 1910 (4th year of Yunghee), → approval on May 12 → consultation and decision on May 13, and sent to the western and central police chiefs. Regarding the Hanseong Gisaeng Association’s Gaeseong performance, the plan to hold a Wongaksa Dance was first mentioned on May 9, 1910 in the report on the status of negotiations on performances in Japan with eight gisaengs of the Hanseong Gisaeng Association and the plan to hold a dance at Wongaksa. It was revealed that the performance was carried out in the following order: Submission of Wongaksa owner's petition and contract for the Gaesong performance and a petition and contract for 10 gisaengs to perform in Gaeseong on May 20, 1910; Metropolitan Police Agency's Order No. 77 Wongaksa owner and 10 gisaengs of the Hanseong Gisaeng Association's Gaeseong performance petition approved on May 24, 1910; Wongaksa owner's employment of 10 gisaeng of the Hanseong Gisaeng Association and approval and order of the petition for the Gaeseong performance on May 24; and the approval order issued to An Chun-min, a clerk of Wongaksa, on May 25, 1910.