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Significance of National Integration of the Two Jinju Fortress Battles during Imjin War

  • 중앙사론
  • 2013, (37), pp.41-96
  • Publisher : Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Park, Hee-Bong 1 Kyoungseok Jang 2

1중앙대학교
2국회입법조사처

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes and reinterprets the background, process, and result of the two-round of Jinju Fortress Battle in 1592 and 1593 respectively during Imjin War between Korea and Japan. It is newly found that more than 150,000 Japanese army were killed from April, 1592 to June, 1593. Although Japanese army was victorious in early battles for two months from the beginning of the war in 1592, Korean army and civilian militia had started counterattack on the Japanese after the early attack. Especially, the two-round of Jinju Fortress Battle inflicted great losses on the Japanese army. The two pyrrhic battels had changed the tide of war. Due to severe damage from the two battles, Japanese army did not achieved the goal of the invasion, and finally was forced to retreat. The results of the two battles are impossible without Korean people’s integration. Then, this paper discuss how Korean people overcome various conflicts, such as regional conflict, class conflict, and ideological conflict, during the war.

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