All the world have faced some severe battles with their neighbors. Asian countries were engaged in civil wars for an extended period. Korea is one of them. South Korea and North Korea were collectively colonies of Japan, and the Japanese soldiers highly tortured the Korea people. Korea has a violent history of war since a hundred years ago. A lot number of nations ruled and left the country as drought, but still, the country tried to rise and prosperous. Chinese rule and policies also affected Korean land for a long period. With the help of the United States and many other nations, the Koreans got independence. The main aim of the paper is to discuss the strategies and history because of which the Korean countries gained independence from all international influence and are living in the peace.
Korea has suffered a lot in the past years because of the foreign intrusions. Before the Japan rule, Korea was independent and was under the Joseon kingdom and after that, Empire of Korea. Korea found a lot of interventions from the Chinese dynasties. The disturbance severe always a big problem for the Korea Empire to survive and prosper. The other international interferences were also a big problem for the Korean people at that time in which the Russians, Mongols, and the Japanese.
In the period of 19th century, most of the international intrusions were eventually ended, but the industrial revolution caused a significant change for the communities to evolve. Western imperialism and other international trends could be added to the industrial revolution. The Chinese had a significant influence on Korea, but due to all the other changes in the china, it was essential for the Chinese powers to return for their selves, and it made the Chinese influence too weak on the Korean lands.
The weakened Chinese rule made the Korean land vulnerable to the foreign encroachments. This period was roughly between the 1870s and 1910. It was a period for Korea counted in the most significant and worst changes and significant upheavals. Koreans were unable to stand for their selves because of lack of people, power, arms and any international support which could help them to make the intrusions to step back or keep their ways outside. The large powers like imperial Russia, Japan, Great Britain, France and the United States had an eye on the open lands of Korea to use it against each other.
The Japanese rule was one of the leading cause of the rise of resistance movements in the overall-l Korean nation. In 1919 these movements were observed in all parts of the country and were known as the first movement of Korean independence. Japanese had a very difficult start of their rule in the Korean land as compared to their government in Argentina’s city Formosa. For securing the rule on the colonies and avoiding any inconvenience as well as resistance, the Japanese troops arrested tens of thousands of Koreans. The harshness of the ruling was one of the main reasons for the igniting the flame of independence. There were outnumbered Korean people who left the Korean land and started living in the neighboring areas as well as in the different colonies of different parts of the world. Some of the Koreans went to Japan where the groups started to agitate clandestinely. Many Koreans found endangered because of Japanese because of their reforming political activities.
After a period when the Koreans partially opposed the colonial policies, the harshness was limited as well as many acts among the Korean as well as Japanese rulers were found to be quiet friendly. The crown prince of Korea married the Japanese princes. The Korean newspapers were facing a lengthy ban, and it was lifted as the cooperative relationships between the two countries started to rise. The two well-known newspapers of that time Choson Libo and The Dong-a Libo were allowed to begin their publication with some restrictions. The Korean Government workers were provided same wages as compared to the Japanese ones. The bonuses were only for the Japanese workers. Moreover, the interruptions of the law and enforcement in the burial, slaughtering of animals, peasant markets, or traditional customs were removed. The Korean society found great relaxation and peace after these changes of the Japanese rule, but after a small period, the World War II and the Chinese invasion started a new era of disturbance which caused the Japanese to become harsh again.
The Korean empire was a colony of Japan. They were entirely under the influence of Japan and were unable to stand for their rights which resulted in the weakening of the Japanese rule as well as the rising of the civil war issues. The North Korea and South Korea were both parts of a single Korea nation, and the Japanese left them in two parts as they were considered as colonies of the Japanese nation.
World War II, as well as the Chinese, caused a great ignition to the Japanese involvement in the Korean society. The invasion of China was a result of the Japanese act of aggression in the northeast Chinese province in 1931. The Chinese government decided to avoid the war against Japan until the time when the Japanese empire would directly attack the Beijing. It directly affected the Koreans as the Chinese defense caused the Japanese to get out of the land of China but also from South Korea as well. Many historians, as well as the analysts, have discussed that the time when South Korea found freedom from Japan still the independence was not close. The Chinese as well as the United States both found the Korea land as vulnerable again and tried to occupy it but due to equal powers and some other socio-economic factors concluded that it is not possible during the World War. The conference in Cairo at that time finalized that the Korean land would now be free from any international intrusion.
The Cairo Conference finalized that US and China would agree for the Korean Independence. China tried to tangle the date for independence and to keep the control over that piece of land, but the other members of the conference strictly opposed it. On August 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union relations were deteriorated, and worst manipulations were done which resulted in an agreement of Chinese troops to land over Pusan, Korea. The main aim of sending troops to Korea was to stop the intrusions of the Soviet Union towards the Korea lands. The United States accepted this act, but it was too late to put the troops in Korean land as the red army already intruded half of the Korean land which resulted in half country being free because of the Chinese intrusion but also on the other side the other part remained occupied. North Korea is now an occupied territory, but the southern part is considered as a liberal and free country.
In a discussion of the ideologies and concerns, it can be explained that there was no specified or single revolutionary movement in all over Korea. Instead of one, there were many separate movements against the colonial rule under the Japanese influence. The main aim of approximately all the movements was to get free of the Japanese political rule as well as the military of Japan. The Koreans have more concern to become a dominant alien state and could act as an independent colony. The also had a desire to start their political sovereignty and wanted to avoid all kind of international intrusions including Japan completely. Japan invaded Korea and made it partially weak as well as stopped its modernization of the Korean empire. All over the world was observing the Korean nation as anti-militarist rebellion and anti-Japanese resistance. The Korean people in other way felt this movement as a substantial step for getting free from the Japanese military rule and to become an independent nation.
No tactics or strategies were being used during the resistance movement. Some stages were found to be prominent which created influence in the Korean nation. In the start of the 20th century during the period of 1905 to 1910, many movements were only seen among the elite class or the highly educated community. Japan took strict attempts to end the resistance and used the harshest ways to stop it. The movements were disorganized and scattered, so it was difficult for the Japanese to break as well as impossible to find the exact backbone of the resistance. From 1910 to 1919, the Koreans started education. The Korean literature, grammar, spellings and ways of pronouncing the alphabets was circulated in the schools. This caused an identification of the separate identity in the Korean community which also produced the resistance to the Japanese rule.
The students have an eager to get the education in the Korean language which also created opposition to the Japanese literature which was currently being taught. He strikes become prominent in 1919 and the movement prominently started. Till 1945, the universities were used as a haven for the students as well as a source of the support for the movement which was highly required for the sustainability purpose of the society. The support of the universities to the movement let the schools develop and facilitated. After the World War I, Korea was suffering a great depression and its economic conditions were not stable. Overall the country was highly facing the socio-economic issues. The labor was complaining about the grievances against Japan’s rule. More than one hundred thousand disputes were under consideration of the Korean workers concerning their wages and more than a thousand disputes of farmers regarding their tenant positions. In the middle of 1926, the number of disputes was raised, and it started the movements concerning labor emerged more during the independence movement.
In an overall consideration, it can be concluded that the Koreans movements for the independence was just and the act of Japanese was found to be wrong. Any intrusion to the foreign lands is always observed as a contemporary as well as a rigid act which mostly results from negative effects on the society. The social circles in any community by the historians and sociologists are designed in three main liberal groups including the religions and expatriate groups as well as the royalist influence.
The Korean religious groups are the Catholicism, and it faced great persecution in the 18th century. The Presbyterian, as well as the Methodist missionaries, were followed in the 19th century, the discussion of these religious groups was similar to the western reforms. They also required the women’s rights as well as the equality concerns. The Confucian tradition, I followed strictly, these amendments to the society are not accepted at all, and the tradition never accepted it. These groups have a primary goal only to get independence from the Japan and Japanese military.
All the Pacific linked areas including the Shanghai, Northeast China, eastern parts of Russia, San Francisco, and Hawaii groups are known as the expatriate groups. The helping forces of these groups were the Korean National Army and the Korean National Association. The university students are also counted in these groups. This group has a significant contribution in dividing the Korean land into two halves.
The Royalist influence could be explained as the elite and the noblest. Japan made tremendous and severe steps to ruin the noble and royal families in which the execution inside the Korean lands, comprehensive assassinations of the royal community of Korea by the mercenaries of Japan are included on the top of the list.
In a nutshell it can be concluded that the Korean history is full of problems and the country was unable to get freedom at all. There are hundreds of thousands Korean died during the last two centuries and the more deadly time was the Japanese rule. In the current situation, half of the Korean country is enjoying the freedom and communication with the world as well as innovations in technology and multicultural status but the other half is completely occupied with the military interferences and marshal law. There are discussions about the northern territory to be free as the southern one but the northern community is completely under the influence of the Supreme leader Kim Jong-un.
