PoliticsJuly 1915

Korea Restoration Association

Park Sang-jin organized the Korea Restoration Association in Daegu. Aiming at a republic, it raised war funds and executed pro-Japanese magnates.

Founded at Dalseong Park, Daegu, in July 1915, it had a military structure with Park as commander and Kim Jwa-jin as deputy in charge of Manchuria, and planned a military academy there to train an independence army. It raided tax wagons, collected funds from the wealthy and killed collaborators who refused.

Exposed in 1918, Park and others were executed. Its declared goal of a republic after independence distinguishes it from the royalist Dongnip Uigunbu.

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States and rulers at the time: Korea under Japanese rule — Governor-General Terauchi Masatake

People

Park Sang-jin1884 – 1921
leader · Commander of the Korea Restoration Association, executed for leading the republican secret society
Kim Jwa-jin1889 – 1930
participant · Commander of the Northern Military Administration who led the Battle of Cheongsan-ri and later the Sinminbu

Before and after

Earlier: 1915 Park Eun-sik's Painful History of Korea
Later: 1919 February Eighth Declaration of Independence

Themes that include this event

DaeguAD 689 – 1960
Dalgubeol, where King Sinmun tried to move his capital — where the National Debt Repayment Movement and the 2·28 student protest began