This paper is an attempt to trace back the emergence and the formation (the constitutive factors) of the discourse on women in Taekeukhakbo during the Korea`s enlightenment period, more precisely, in 1905-1910. Taekeukhakbo is the major academic journal during that time. In order to examine the socio-historical conditions and the constitutive factors of women`s discourse in Taekeukhakbo, this work should be understood/dealt within the context of the making of modern `nation-state` discourse and civilization-enlightenment. Obviously, they are the major dominant discourses during that time. This paper will mainly deal with the following topics: how they define `women`; what is to be women; what are women`s duties and positions in the social reality of the time; what is a good mother and wife; in what context, the discourse of good mother and wise wife are produced and mostly needed; how `real` women writers as historical beings acted and reacted to those dominant female`s values and social norms. Initially, the discourse of women in Taekeukhakbo operates in the framework of the concepts and ideologies on modern nation-state and civilization-enlightenment. Within doing so, Korean `women` emerged as new gungmin(國民, the citizen of nation-state) in the public communication world of Korea. Korean women are identified as gungmin (identification). To create the new identity of modern women, they often utilize a series of contrasts; duality, opposition, and symmetry. In this sense, western women are modernized (civilized women) and educated, which are the representations of ideal women. In this discourse, Korean women are often described as slave for or inferiors to Korean men. More importantly, the discourse of Korean women and its constitutive principles often present paradoxes. For example, Korean women are equal as gungmin like men. They, however, are to be gendered gungmin such as wise mothers and good wives excluded from the society. The women`s discourse in Taekeukhakbo are constructed through either the difference or equality of gender.