JAPANESE OPPRESSION OF KOREA

Political Oppression

3 Treaties:
1905: Korea became a protectorate under Japan
1907: Executive Branch infiltrated
1908: Annexation of Korea; made brutality legal

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

Military:
1. 1907 treaty: military order- disbandment of Korean military
2. Guerrilla warfare only means of protection

• 1907 - military order to disband Korean military
• Guerrilla warfare: only means of protection

"The Korean armed resistance gradually grew weaker, and the Korean volunteer army had ceased to exist in November 1910 or in March 1912 with its last operation in Hwanghae-do province." -FA MCKENZIE
"As I stood on a mountain pass, looking down on the valley leading to Inch' Con, I recalled these words of my friend. The Ôstrong hand of Japan' was certainly being shown here. I beheld in front of me village after village reduced to ashes. Destruction, thorough and complete, had fallen upon it. Not a single house was left, and not a single wall of a house." - FA MCKENZIE

ECONOMICAL

1. Fishing and Farming
2. Fixed prices
3. High taxes
4. 37% - 52% of land
5. Japanese rice riots

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

1. Miners, construction, ship builders

• Miners
• Construction
• Ship builders

SOCIAL

Language and Art
1. Hangul - native Korean language
- not to be spoken
2. Names changed or fired from work
- 86% complied

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

Art
1. Thousands of native pieces stolen
(Still not returned)
2. Native hahoe dance banned - "mocked authority"

Korean Documents
1. Burned 300,0002. Disbanded newspapers

Comfort Women
1. Sexual slaves for Japanese soldiers and officials
- 3/4 died
- STD's
-trauma
- tortured

Christianity
1. Offered a way out
- US to study
- convert to Christianity

• Promises of studies
• "Better life"
• Freedom

PUSH - PULL

• Oppression
• Lack of freedom; hope
• Economic situation
• Stripped of culture
• Freedom, hope
• From 600,000-1,000,000 death - 11,000 immigrants