JAPANESE OPPRESSION OF KOREA

Political Oppression

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

• First treaty signed 1907
• Second treaty signed 1908
• Third treaty signed 1910

MILITARY

• 1907 - military order
• Guerrilla warfare
• F.A. McKenzie

ECONOMICAL

JAPANESE TAKE OVER

• Farming and fishing
• Taxes
• Fixed prices
• Monopoly on commerce industry and mining

FARMERS BECAME

• Miners
• Construction
• Ship builders

SOCIAL

CONVERSION

• Language and art
• Comfort Women
• Burning of books & biographies
• Newspapers

CHRISTIANITY

• Promises of studies
• "Better life"
• Freedom

PUSH - PULL

• Oppression
• Lack of freedom; hope
• Economic situation
• Stripped of culture
• Freedom, hope