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Oriental Development Company
Company typePublic
IndustryInternational trade
Founded1908
Headquarters,

The Oriental Development Company, established by the Empire of Japan in 1908 is a national enterprise As a result, it was frequently granted special rights and privileges, including trade monopolies and exemptions. Th

Oriental_Development_Company located in Korea

Foundation

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After Independence Club (독립협회, 獨立協會) was dissolved on December 25 1898 as Emperor Gojong officially announced to prohibit congresses held by people, the Empire of Japan made a treaty with the Korean Empire called Eulsa Treaty which made the Korean Empire become a protectorate of the Empire of Japan [1] of Japan. The treaty laid the foundation for the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1907 in and subsequent annexation of Korea in 1910.[2] Even though Emperor Sunjong, who is a son of Emperor Gojong, sent a Hague Secret Emissary Affair to expose the unfairness of the treaty in the Hague Convention of 1907, due to the Great Powers, they were ignored.[3]

History

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From the initiation by Ahn Changho in Los Angeles, California, the people who used to be the leaders of Independence Club decided to organize Korean New People's Association (대한신민회) from Pyeongyang and Seoul in the late 1906. After the establishment, they have established branches national-wide, and started to support education, industrialization, and military actions for the independence. However, in 1911, the New People's Association was dissolved as the Imperial Japan fabricated the Case of the One Hundred Five and arrested the main members of the New people's Association. Even though they were dismissed, their ideology and main actions became inherited by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea later.

Ideology

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The main politic ideology of the New People's Association was based on Republicanism, which is far different from Constitutional Monarchy which Independence Club had believed. Also, to strengthen the national power, they asserted that citizens should be reformed to become new people(신민, 新民) first. In other words, they believed people should be 'prepared' first for the apportunity for the independence of Korea.


Aftermath

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Oriental_Development_Company located in Tokyo


Footnotes

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  1. ^ The history of Korea, pp.461~462, by Homer Hulbert
  2. ^ Carnegie Endowment (1921). Pamphlet 43: Korea, Treaties and Agreements," p. vii., p. vii, at Google Books
  3. ^ Eckert, Carter J. et al. (1990). Korea Old and New: A History, p. 245.

Category:Korean independence movement