Ideologies and Concerns
Although there were many separate movements against colonial rule, the main ideology or purpose of the movement was to free Korea from the Japanese military and political rule. Koreans were concerned with alien domination and Korea’s state as a colony. They desired to restore Korea's independent political sovereignty after Japan invaded the weakened and unmodernized Korean Empire, which was the result of Japan's political maneuvers to invade Korea by manipulating international community to legitimize a false annexation treaty signed under military coercion. During the independence movement, the rest of the world viewed Korea's resistance movement as a racial anti-imperialist, anti-militarist rebellion, and an anti-Japanese resistance movement. Koreans, however, saw the movement as a step to free Korea from the Japanese military rule.
The South Korean government is criticized for not accepting Korean socialists who fought for the Korean independence.
Read more about this topic: Korean Independence Movement
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