How Hirobumi Ito turned to forcible annexation of Korea

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(1)After the Eulsa Wolf Pact, the Korean Ministry of War was established, and Hirobumi Ito became the
(2)Invited to join the team
(3)Koreans reacted to Masu’s attempt to usurp their sovereignty and fought back against Japan in the Korean War.
(4)From 1906 to 1911, the Japanese recorded 1,852 engagements with medical soldiers alone.
(5)Of those, there were 17,779 deaths and 141,818 participants.
(6)You can imagine the backlash from Koreans.
(7)In 1909, Hirobumi Ito, the emperor at the time, ordered Sunjong to create the
(8)Organized a tour of the western, northern, and southern provinces
(9)The reason for the tour was to calm the Korean public’s backlash and to show off how well the Tongam Ministry was serving the emperor.
(10)And so, from January 7 to January 12, 1909, Daegu, Busan,
(11)The Namsun Tour of Masan
(12)From Jan. 27 to Feb. 3, the tour will visit Pyongyang, Uiju, Jeongju, Kaesong, etc.
(13)But this sequence goes in the opposite direction of what Ito meant.
(14)The original purpose of the tour was to foster favorable feelings toward the Tonggamu and Japan.
(15)In fact, the Korean people openly expressed their hostility toward Japan by welcoming the emperor.
(16)A representative example is the Japanese warship Ah at Masan Harbor in Sunjong on the southern route.
(17)I’m about to board the Tsuma.
(18)The people of Masan, in five or six separate boats, set out for the emperor.
(19)”If His Majesty goes to Japan, we will jump into the sea and die.
(20)will be. I will not see my wages taken captive.”
(21)You’ve been yelled at
(22)And in every village where they traveled, they offered sacrifices to the loyalists of the past and the heroes of the Imjin War.
(23)On the westbound route, festivals were held at the shrines of Dangun, Giza, King Dongmyeongseong, and Eulji Munduk.
(24)Of course, the ritual was not planned by Ito at all.
(25)The number of people who came out to receive the pilgrimage was very large, 10,000 in Masan, 15,000 in Uiju, and 100,000 in Kaesong.
(26)Crowds were out in force
(27)Normally, the welcoming crowd for the year would have been the flag and Japanese flag.
(28)We had to shake them together.
(29)Many people refuse to wear the flag and only wear the flag.
(30)Boo was very distressed.
(31)This is how the people enthusiastically supported the emperor and made Japan an enemy.
(32)Ito realized that the Tongammu policy had failed, and forced a merge with the
(33)Turned toward the castle
(34)He resigned from his position and returned to Japan.
(35)on February 8, 1909, shortly after the
(36)Not that the Lee family didn’t do a good job of fighting for independence.
(37)Ito slapped Tongamjik in the face.
(38)Something that proves the independence of the Korean people back then
(39)They came in 300 years ago, deleted one-third of the population, and said, “You know what?
(40)I’ll take your word for it lol
(41)That’s why, even if obedience does nothing, Japan is very above obedience.
(42)I’ve labeled you as a nasty person.
(43)In a dynastic state, the survival of the king is significant.

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