In Korea

National Resistance and Contending Legacies

Bibliographic Data

ID3639196
AuthorsGi-Wook Shin (0009-0007-4436-6185, GfK (United States)), Rennie J Moon (GfK (United States)), Rennie Moon
Year2019
Volume78
Issue2
Pages399-408
Publication date2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s002191181900007x
OpenAlexW2944192248
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited5

This excerpt, written in 1920 by a then seventeen-year-old girl, Yu Kwansun, while imprisoned at Seodaemun Prison, is a powerful expression of Korean national resistance against Japanese colonialism. As a student at Ehwa Haktang in Seoul, Korea, she joined other protesters on March 1, 1919, shouting "Mansei!" ("Long live Korean independence!"), which became the first nationwide protest movement against Japanese rule. After being convicted of sedition, Yu was sent to Seodaemun Prison in Seoul, where she demanded the release of other prisoners and continued to express her support for Korean independence, even organizing a large-scale protest on the first anniversary of the movement. She was transferred to an underground cell, where she was repeatedly beaten and tortured for speaking out. She reportedly wrote the excerpt above before dying of her injuries on September 28, 1920, at the age of seventeen

Alien · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Criminology · Girl · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Population · Prison · Resistance (ecology) · Sedition · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Psychology

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