'The arch agitator:' Dr. Frank W. Schofield and the Korean independence movement.

摘要

On March 1st 1919, after nearly a decade of forced assimilation and military rule under Japanese administration, the Korean people demanded their independence. The mass demonstrations that followed became known as the ‘March 1st Movement.’ Despite the peaceful nature of the movement, it was brutally repressed by the Japanese military forces in Korea, and resulted in the arrest and torture of thousands of Koreans by mid-June. Missionaries in Korea protested the appalling tortures and the imprisonment of Korean demonstrators through an international publicity campaign that sought to expose the ‘atrocities’ being committed by the Japanese.