Bottom left Korean traditional mourning clothes
Right: Mourning clothes modified by Japanese influence
Difference Between Colonization and AnnexationOnly the king and leader of the country are ruled by other countries.
The direction of trying to maintain the country’s language and culture as is.
The merger seeks to change the culture, language, name, clothing, food, religion, and even eating habits of each country to be similar.
What Japan did to us was annexation.
They tried to completely erase the country called Joseon and turn it into a country called Japan.