Under the Black Umbrella and Japanese Colonization of Korea

The division of Korea led North Korea led North Korea to invade South Korea to obtain a united, undivided Korea. From 1905 to 1945 the Korea Peninsula was under Japanese control.

With the change of government in Japan, economic change soon followed. Banks were founded to invest in capital, railways and steam boats were developed, restrictions on trade such as tariffs and guilds were removed, and land was re-distributed. These reforms helped spur the Industrial

In 1915, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the Korean Peninsula, and until 1945, Korean remained under Japanese rule. But after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea

In conclusion, Korean had suffered to overcome the challenges in the period between the late 19th to the early 20th century because of the foreign countries’ forces to take the benefit out from Korea. Starting with the forced treaties and wars of China, Japan, and Russia on Korean peninsula, Korea even lost its independence in 1910 by Japan. Korean government’s reaction to these events was disappointing: emperor Gojong even ran away to Russia after the first Sino-Japanese war, which is also called as Agwan Pacheon. As a result of continuous invasion of foreign forces and irresponsible government’s reactions, Korean showed three major responds to the depressing situation: depending on Japan to take control of Korea to modernize, studying abroad

From 1910 to 1945, Koreans demonstrated their resistance against the Japanese through the Korean Independence Movement when Japan colonized Korea. Weakened by earlier Chinese occupance, Korea was already in a state turmoil. Heroic people such as Yun Bong-Gil and Yu Gwan Sun stood up for their country and culture. It took Korea almost 30 more years to gain their independence, but under their leadership, they proved the success of their determination and patriotism. Despite the eventually liberation of Korea, the Japanese occupation proved to be devastating to the Korean tradition and culture. Yet, the occupation had also been incredibly helpful to the Japanese economy which was under the rule of Hideki

The Meiji Restoration allowed Japan to modernise and adopt the ideas, technologies, and social, political

The impacts are not only affected one aspect but it affected few aspects including Japanese economy, and Cultural and social life. Japan economy has once experienced the sudden raise as the Tokyo stock market has boomed during the Korea civil war (Dingman, p 14, 1993). The other impact that Japan feel is The Korean War kept Japan internationalized as many Americans stayed in Japan and made an open and good relationship with the strangers. This relationship was not only let Japan enriched their popular culture, it was also chance to promote their culture and economy to the international world (Dingman, p 28,

After the wars in Korea and Japan’s assimilation into the Korean government, they created a treaty between the two. This treaty was known as The Japan Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan Korea Annexation Treaty. This formally annexed Korea forcing them to be a formal colony of Japan. This lead to Many Japanese settlers were interested in acquiring agricultural land in Korea begin move migrate there. The Governor-General at time helped these settlements through land, which initially was accepted by most of the Korean population. The Korean land ownership system was a system of a form of an absolute power landlord. The level of that these peasants were just as was similar to that of farmers in Japan. However, in Korea, the landowners

One effect modernization had on Japan was strengthening international presence and relations for Japan. This is first shown in document 1 from a letter written by U.S. Commodore Perry to the Emperor of Japan telling that, “the President desires to live in peace and friendship with your imperial majesty, but no friendship can long exist, unless Japan ceases to act toward Americans as if they were her enemies…” (Doc 1). The purpose of the letter from the U.S. is to open them up to the rest of the West and to become an ally that they can interact with. The modernization of Japan allowed them to engage in this transformation served as a long term benefit. Document 2 supports those international benefits

We explained to them about the electric telegraph and soon after we even connected them with California's telegraphs.10 Many Japanese women started to wear western dresses or even sweaters and slacks.11 Japan changed politically as well. Japan became divided up into 47 profectures, which are similar to American states. Japan has carried over America's democratic ideas of social freedom, economic independence, and democratic liberties and privileges Japan's government soon began the executive, legislative, and judicial branches seen in America seen after the war.13 These changes all became possible soon after the war with great financial aid from the Us.14 Japan's progress in America's modernization program was so fast, we had to begin recognizing Japan as a world power.15 After Japan's modernization program, Japanese life began to change less dramatically, but never stopped.

To begin with, Chinese influence in Japan gave the idea of infrastructure available to the people. First of all, during the Taika Reforms, many roads started being constructed. This is key to the

The authors are both from Columbia University. This article discusses what kind of changes, both negative and positive, occurred after the mass recruitment of the colonial surplus population. This article offers positive insight to the study of my topic, which other articles do not. According to the authors, consequences of the monopolization of the cheap Korean labor caused an unevenness in the distribution of Korean workers in the Japanese labor market. They provide many historical events as an example to prove Korean workers’ invaluableness and disposability.

The First Sino- Japanese war allowed Japan to emerge as a major world power while revealing the weakness of the Chinese empire. Both China and Japan wanted to rule supreme over Korea. Korea was already one of China 's most significant clients. Japan started to notice Korea for its geographic positioning and its natural resources (coal and iron). After Japan implemented Western technology, Korea was forced to expose itself to trade with Japan and proclaim independence from China. Japanese reformers attempted to overthrow the Korean government in 1884. Chinese troops rescued the king killing several Japanese guards in the process. War was evaded between the two countries by signing of the Li- Ito convention, both countries had to withdraw troops from Korea. In 1894, Kim Ok-kyun, a pro-Japanese Korean leader of the 1884 rebellion, was invited to Shanghai and assassinated. His body was then placed aboard a Chinese warship and directed back to Korea, where it

This was a threat to Japan but even more so was the belief in Korea

Furthermore, industrial development was progressing at a larger rate but this was more to support the Japanese war with China. Industrial revolution advanced at such an enormous rate in Korean that when Japanese surrender in 1945 Korea was the second most industrialized country in Asia after Japan. (Asia for Educators) Then the Korea War of 1945 made matters worse for Seoul since both the North and South knew how much value it posed. After the Korean war of 1950, Seoul entered a reconstruction era where everything was being rebuilt to strengthen the city, and Seoul started flourishing once again. After six and more than a half decades passed Seoul has become one of the most vibrant cities in the world. Diverse number of people lived in the city and has become the center-hub for many sectors of industries like electronics, vehicles etc. South Korea’s economy was barely moving after the civil that has led to large destruction in nation. The government’s main focus became investing in labor-intensive manufacturing to increase the GDP. Hence during the 1960’s economic growth doubled to 8.8 percent while it was 4.5 percent in 1950’s. In one decade south Korea progressed and led its economy to once again start booming.