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Politics10 August 1944

Korean Founding League

Anticipating Japan’s defeat, Yeo Un-hyeong formed the secret Korean Founding League at home. It became the basis of the Committee for the Preparation of Korean Independence right after liberation.

Yeo Un-hyeong, founder of the Korea Founding League — 1945
Yeo Un-hyeong, founder of the Korea Founding League — 1945

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Founded in Seoul on 10 August 1944, it built a nationwide network under the rules of saying nothing, writing nothing and revealing no names. Its programme was to drive out Japanese imperialism and restore Korea’s freedom and independence, to build a democratic state and to work for the liberation of workers and peasants.

It set up a peasants’ league and a military committee to prepare an armed uprising, kept in touch with the Korean Independence League in Yan’an and sought links with the Provisional Government.

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States and rulers at the time
Korea under Japanese rule — Governor-General Abe Nobuyuki

People

  • Yeo Un-hyeong1886 – 1947

    leader · Founded the New Korea Youth Party in Shanghai and in 1944 the underground Korean Founding League at home

Before and after

Earlier
1944 Deaths in Prison of Yi Yuk-sa and Yun Dong-ju
Later
1945 Planned Homeland Advance Operation

Themes that include this event

  • World War II and Korea1937 – 1945

    Wartime mobilization and exploitation, independence armies, from the Cairo Declaration to liberation