A Study on Educational Discourse in <The Independent>

This study aims to <The Independent> examine the educational discourse in.<The Independent> was founded on April 7, 1896 and ceased publication on December 4, 1899.It was published every other day with four pages in two languages, Korean and English.<The Independent> articles were composed primarily of editorials, official gazettes, miscellaneous reports, and advertisements from the beginning.In addition, foreign correspondence, newspapers from each department, telegrams, and special reports were sometimes published in the paper.Based on the results of previous studies, this paper analyzed 32 articles related to educational discourse in independent newspapers.As a result, the following conclusions were obtained.<The Independent> emphasizes the importance of education, arguing that raising people's awareness of their rights through school, women's education, Korean and foreign language education, and developing the power to correct government injustices is necessary.It also explains how vocational, industrial, and agricultural education can contribute to developing agricultural technology and the country's wealth and argues for the need for education to introduce new methods and technologies.Sanitation, medical education, and biology education emphasize the importance of medical education and professionalism and the need for accurate observation and thinking through biology.Moral education, military and official education, and political science education insist on the importance of fair law enforcement and education for the proper operation of the state.