The Korean Language Society Incident (朝鮮語學會事件, Chōsengo gakkai jiken, Korean: 조선어학회 사건) refers to the arrest, torture, and imprisonment of members of the...

for the Korean Language Society Incident, an incident in which the Japanese government suppressed the members of the Korean Language Society through torture...

ethnic Korean permanent residents of Japan. The term Zainichi Korean refers only to long-term Korean residents of Japan who trace their roots to Korea under...

sweeping changes in Korea. It began a process of Japanization, eventually functionally banning the use of Korean names and the Korean language altogether. Tens...

the USSR. 1942: October. The Korean Language Society incident occurs, under which members of the Korean Language Society are arrested and tortured on...

Korea (PDF), United States of America: The Korea Society Wikimedia Commons has media related to Korean independence movement. Brief article on Korean...

of Korean Culture (in Korean). Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved March 3, 2018. "Yokohama recalls texts describing 1923 'massacre' of Koreans". The...

The Shinano River incident (信濃川朝鮮人虐殺事件, Shinanogawa Chōsenjin Gyakusatsu Jiken) was the massacre of up to 100 Korean laborers in July 1922 who were working...

known by the pen-name Oesol, was an educationalist and scholar of the Korean language. Choe's family was part of the Gwangju Choe bon-gwan. He was born in...

The romanization of Korean (Korean: 로마자 표기법; RR: romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language. There are multiple...

Gyeongseong (Korean: 경성), was an administrative district of Korea under Japanese rule that corresponds to the present Seoul, the capital of South Korea. When...

Kim Do-yeon (Korean: 김도연; Hanja: 金度演; June 6, 1894 – April 19, 1967) was a Korean independence activist and politician and member of the cabinet. biography...

against the Korean residents of Gando (present-day Jiandao, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China), after the Hunchun incident. The massacre...

jangbon (1940). As a member of the Korean Language Society, he was jailed in the Korean Language Society Incident by the Japanese colonial forces. He...

The Five Eulsa Traitors (Korean: 을사 오적) refers to the five officials serving under Emperor Gojong who signed the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, which is...

Hashima in particular was condemned by the South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese governments. South Korea argued that the official recognition of those...

North Korea. His art name was Yaja (也自, "myself" in Japanese). He was an educator, scholar of Korean literature, and researcher of Korean language during...

for Korea. The yen was subdivided into 100 sen. It replaced the Korean won at par and was replaced by the South Korean won and the North Korean won at...

the Korean independence movement. These people are now considered by much of Korea to have been collaborators with Japan, and thus traitors to Korea. Examples...

Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea (Japanese: 日韓基本条約 (Nikkan Kihon Jōyaku); Korean: 한일기본조약; Hanja: 韓日基本條約; RR: Hanil gibon joyak) was...

of the Korean language dictionary compilation committee in 1936. On October 1, 1942, he was arrested during the Korean Language Society Incident, sentenced...

socioeconomic position in South Korean society. Academic success is often a source of familial pride and societal esteem in South Korea at large, where many individuals...

Republic of Korea in the south. The Korean War began when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about...

involved in having Korean women working as comfort women.[better source needed] After the Japanese defeat in World War II, the Korean Peninsula was administered...

fictional treatment of both the work of the Korean Language Society and the 1942 Korean Language Society Incident. Yoo Hae-jin as Kim Pan-soo Yoon Kye-sang...

arrested in China in 2006 for reportedly helping North Korean defectors there. Another North Korean defector, Kang Cheol-hwan, has stated that, whereas Hong...

and that Korean men helped recruit the victims. Cumings stated that between 100,000 and 200,000 Korean girls and women were recruited. In Korea, the daughters...

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of...

Japanese Korean Army (朝鮮軍, Chōsen-gun, lit. 'Korean military') was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army that formed a garrison force in Korea under Japanese...

campaigns in Korea include both North and South Korean propaganda leaflet campaigns, with the use of balloons as a distribution method since the Korean War. A...