This is the Iksan Anti-Japanese Independence Movement Memorial Hall in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea.

This is the Iksan Anti-Japanese Independence Movement Memorial Hall in Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea. Iksan Righteous Army, Daegyo Farm, and the April 4th Independence Movement When the country was in danger due to the Eulsa Treaty and the subsequent disbandment of the military in 1905, people with a sense of purpose gathered together and began righteous army activities. The Iksan Righteous Army is represented by the righteous army activities led by Lee Gyu-hong, and they fought against Japan for five months. Daegyo Farm was established in 1907 by Ohashi Yoichi, who owned Ohashi Bank during the Japanese colonial period. He purchased a significant amount of farmland in Iksan and developed it into a large farm, and after accumulating rice, he exported it to Japan through Gunsan Port. The Daegyo Farm office is a building that shows the site of agricultural exploitation. It is a two-story wooden building designated as Registered Cultural Property No. 209, and the word Daegyo is engraved on the roof of the building. After liberation, it was used as a school building for Iri Chinese elementary school. The Manse Movement in the Iksan area took over the March 1st Independence Movement and took place on April 4th at the Nambu Market on the Iri Market Day. About 1,000 people participated in the Manse Movement, and the Japanese military police, feeling threatened by the large crowd, suppressed it with force, even mobilizing Japanese farm managers. Six people, including Moon Yong-gi, were killed on the spot, about 20 people were injured, and 39 people were arrested. In order to remember Iksan’s independence movement for a free country, a memorial hall was built at the Nambu Market, the site of the Manse Movement, and the Daegyo Farm office, the site of agricultural and fisheries operations during the Japanese colonial period. Anti-Japanese sentiment was growing due to the Eulmi Incident in 1895, in which Japanese Minister Miura Goro led the assassination of Empress Myeongseong, and the hair-cutting order. Japan robbed the Korean Empire of its diplomatic rights by concluding the Eulsa Treaty, deposed Emperor Gojong under the pretext of sending a special envoy to the Hague, and even disbanded the Korean Empire’s army. The enraged people raised militias all over the country, and these militias joined hands with the scattered Korean Empire’s army and grew into an even greater force. A large-scale militia movement also unfolded in the Jeollabuk-do region, where the anti-Japanese movement was greatly weakened due to the failure of the Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894. In the Iksan region, the militia leader Lee Gyu-dong raised a militia in November 1907 and continued the anti-Japanese movement for five months until March 1908. However, Japan took away the Korean Empire’s judicial power by forcing the Giyu Memorandum in 1909, and finally robbed the Korean Empire of its sovereignty by forcing the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty in 1910. Due to the ruthless Japanese rule, our people were deprived of all freedoms including freedom of speech, publication, assembly, and association, and farmers even had their land taken away. Iksan is a transportation hub at the junction of the Honam and Jeolla lines and consists of vast plains. At the time, the Japanese called Iksan Okikguttul, saying that it was the best place to exploit because there were good fields and rice paddies here. Iksan, the front line of land exploitation and the site of economic invasion, Starting with the Imamura Farm in 1896, as many as 13 farms were created in Iksan alone, and in 1907, Ohashi purchased most of the land in the Iksan area and formed a vigilante group to prepare for attacks by the righteous army, and armed the people guarding the farms with guns and swords. The Japanese continued to flock to the Jeollabuk-do region, establishing large-scale farms in about 50 places and taking control of land survey projects, post offices, police stations, and county offices. After that, the opening of the Jeonju-Gunsan road, the opening of Gunsan Port, and the opening of the Gunsan-Iksan railroad further increased the momentum of economic plunder, such as grain transportation, and the population that flocked to Iksan with the ambition of exploitation under the pretext of reclamation rapidly increased. At the time of the forced annexation of Korea by Japan, the Japanese population living in Iksan reached 300 households (1,000 people). After that, the Japanese, who bought the land of farmers at a low price from the Oriental Development Company and large Japanese farms, took advantage of the fact that most farmers, except for a few pro-Japanese collaborators, were blind, and made them register their land by creating complicated documents such as Chinese characters, and committed the atrocity of forcibly taking away farmland if they failed to submit the ownership documents by the promised date. Our farmers, who were reduced to tenant farmers, had more than half of the annual farming they had worked hard to do taken away as rent by the Japanese, and after paying various taxes, they ended up penniless. In 1907, during the desperate period when the nation and the country were collapsing under the rule of the Residency-General, merchants, laborers, soldiers, officials, students, monks, and even gisaengs recognized that the national finances were on the verge of bankruptcy and donated to repay the national debt. This was a movement to restore national sovereignty and to establish a country where the people were the masters, and the National Debt Repayment Movement was a movement to restore national sovereignty that began in Daegu on January 29, 1907 and spread like wildfire throughout the country. #Domestic travel #Travel plans #February travel subsidy event