Korean independence movement

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The Korean independence movement, also known as the Korean Revolution, was a series of diplomatic and militant efforts that liberated the Korean peninsula from Japanese rule. Independence efforts began around the late 19th century, with the movement officially beginning in 1919, and ended with the surrender of Japan in 1945. As independence activism on the peninsula was largely suppressed by the Empire of Japan, many significant efforts were conducted abroad by the Korean diaspora, as well as by a number of sympathetic non-Koreans. In the mid-19th century, Joseon Korea, Tokugawa Japan and Qing China were forced out of their policies of isolationism by the West. Japan then proceeded to rapidly modernize to become a great power in the region, forcefully open Korea, and establish its own hegemony over the peninsula after defeating Qing China in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War. Eventually, it formally annexed Korea in 1910. The 1919 March First Movement...

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