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The Korean Independence Movement and Foreigners of National Merit
Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
2020,
77(2), pp.13-46
DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.77.2.202005.13
Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
Research Area : Other Humanities
DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.77.2.202005.13
Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
Research Area : Other Humanities
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As of November 2019, there are a total of 89 foreigners of national merit from nine countries. Apart from 19 descendants of Koreans, their number totals 70. They are mostly missionaries from the United States and Canada, Chinese Kuomintang members, and westerners who supported the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Foreigners who supported independence movements affiliated with socialism and anarchism and various independence activist groups that opposed Rhee have been excluded from the Korean government’s list of rewards. This was due to the division of Korea and the anti-communist pro-U.S. policies of the previous Korean governments. In order to achieve peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula, foreign independence fighters should be found and acknowledged more widely. It should be expanded, geographically, to those Russia, China, Eastern Europe, and Japan locally ideologically to include socialists and anarchists, as well as nationalist groups, that were at odds with Rhee and the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
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