Sun Yat-sen in Korea: Korean View of Sun Yat-sen's Idea and Activities in 1920s

Abstract

Following immediately after the March First Movement of 1919, Korea of 1920s witnessed widespread independent movements aross Manchurian border, the Maritime Province of Siberia and domestic upsurge of socialist movement accompanied by the introduction of Marxist doctrine on the leading Korean newspapers and journals, followed by the founding of Korean Communist Party in 1925. It was also the time of booming of newspaper journalism that took advantage of Japanese appeasement policy to soothe the enmity of Korean people broken out in 1919. Despite the severe censorship of the colonial ruler, newspapers managed to carry very often the news of armed activities of Doglipgun(military units for Korean independence) based in Manchuria against Japanese border-posts.