occupancy of Korea
Korea’s history cannot be told without mentioning the Japanese occupation and how it forever changed Korea as a country. Japan used Korea as a stations ground for their troops during the Russo-Japanese War, despite Korea’s wishes to remain neutral. This was the beginning of Japan’s occupancy and colonization in Korea. Japan immediately got rid of any Russian influence in Korea, showing Japan’s real intentions; Japan wanted to make sure no major power could gain control of Korea and become a threat to Japanese security. “Korea [was not able] to freely govern itself due to outside influences” (Raasch, PP4), and no country would come to Korea’s rescue. As the war subsided, Korea still played a major role in Japan’s interests in southern Manchuria. Japan continued to force Korea into submission and could not understand Korea’s lack of appreciation for Japan. Japan continued their tyrannical rule in Korea simply because they believed no one would intervene. Unfortunately, this would not hold true true. Because of the Japanese domination, Korea suffered more than any nation during World War II; the Japanese took away Korean food to feed the Japanese, they stole every metal obj
ect they could fine that would help with the war, they enrolled Korean men to work in Japanese and Korean women were used to provide sex for Japanese troops. The Japanese domination was detrimental to the Korean Peninsula and, understandably, they wanted independence immediately. The decolonization of the Korean Peninsula began with the end of World War II in 1945 with the defeat of Japan. “The Koreans had been victimized by Japan for forty years, endured various efforts at forced Japanization” (Cohen, 369). Their liberators were the United States and the Soviet Union. It seemed as if Korea would finally regain their independence, but as time went on, they too refused to give Korea complete independence and Korea was split into two opposed states.
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