Person1852 – 1919
Terauchi Masatake
Last Resident-General and first Governor-General of Korea, who ruled through the military police
Where they went
4 related events
- 1
Japan set up the Government-General of Korea and ruled through the military police. Governors-General were drawn from army and navy generals and admirals.
- 2
The Government-General required the governor-general’s permission to found a company, blocking the growth of Korean capital, and seized resources through the fisheries, forestry and mining ordinances.
- 3
Japan fabricated a plot to assassinate Governor-General Terauchi and arrested some 600 people, many from the Sinminhoe. 105 were convicted at first instance, giving the case its name.
- 4
The Government-General issued the first Joseon Education Ordinance to raise "loyal and good subjects", setting four-year common schools and allowing only low-level education centred on Japanese and vocational training.
People who appear alongside
- Yang Gi-tak1871 – 1938
Co-publisher of the Daehan maeil sinbo who led the National Debt Repayment Movement and the New People’s Association
- Ahn Chang-ho1878 – 1938
Founder of the Sinminhoe and the Heungsadan; as Interior Minister of the Provisional Government he set up the yeontongje network
- Yi Seung-hun1864 – 1930
Sinminhoe member who founded the Osan School in Jeongju, was jailed in the Case of the 105 and was a Christian representative in the March First Movement
Themes this person appears in
- Educational Institutions Through the AgesAD 372 – 1943
From the Taehak and Gukhak to the Gukjagam and Seonggyungwan, modern schools and the colonial education ordinances — state schools that trained officials and the private schools that filled the gaps