March 1st Movement Day in Korea

March 1st Movement day

Korean Independence movement

The Korean Empire became a colony of the Japanese Empire in 1910, and on March 1, 1919, the people of the Korean Peninsula launched a peaceful independence movement, which is still celebrated today as a national holiday in South Korea.

The Preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Korea states that today's Republic of Korea continues the legal system of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which was established in the spirit of the March 1 Movement.

In 1919, news broke that Emperor Gojong of the abolished Korean Empire had been poisoned, and the independence movement was organized around his funeral day(March 1).

March 1st Movement

3.1 The Movement took place across the Korean Peninsula and around the world where Koreans lived, and it led to the birth of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.

Later, the Provisional Government of Korea organized anti-Japanese independence movements centered in the Chinese province of Manchuria, as well as diplomatic efforts in the United States and elsewhere.

During World War II, the Provisional Government of Korea fought alongside the Allies against the Japanese in Burma, and planned operations with the US OSS (the predecessor of the CIA).

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