Korean independence movement
Activism to end the Japanese occupation
Follow Korean independence movement on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on Kim Il Sung, Soong Mei-ling, An Jung-geun, People's Republic of Korea, Kim Jong Suk, The Age of Shadows, Kim Chaek, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Pak Hon-yong, Kim Hyong-jik, Kim Ku, Chiangism, Blue Shirts Society, Yi Kang, Righteous armies, Pak Yol ... and more.
| March 1 2024 |
March First Movement
Korean ethnic communities worldwide, including those in Brazil, Mongolia, Kuwait, Taiwan, and the United States, hosted annual commemorative events for the March First Movement.
|
| February 27 2024 |
March First Movement
New York state officially designated March 1 as Yu Gwan-sun Day, honoring a key figure of the March First Movement.
|
| 2020 | Major General Patrick Donaho, commander of United States Forces Korea, strongly recommended the TV drama Mr. Sunshine on his Twitter account. |
| June 2020 |
March First Movement
The commemorative commission established in 2018 ceased its operations.
|
| June 2020 |
March First Movement
The Commission on the Centennial Anniversary ceased its operations.
|
| 2019 | Lee Byung-hun won Best Actor at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards |
| 2019 | The series won Best Creative Award at the 1st Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards |
| 2019 | Kim Pyong Il officially retired from his diplomatic post and returned to North Korea. |
| 2019 | Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen published 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', detailing CIA claims about Kim Il Sung's potentially fabricated identity as a Soviet-controlled puppet leader. |
| 2019 |
March First Movement
NIKH published the online March First Movement Database to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement, representing the first time the South Korean government promoted a single set of official statistics on the event.
|
| 2018 | Kim Tae-ri won Best New Actress at the 6th APAN Star Awards and was nominated for several other awards |
| 2018 | Lee Byung-hun won Best Actor at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards for his performance in Mr. Sunshine. |
| 2018 |
March First Movement
President Moon Jae-in established the Commission on the Centennial Anniversary of March 1st Independence Movement and the Korean Provisional Government to commemorate the historic events.
|
| September 30 2018 | The final episode of Mr. Sunshine aired, achieving a remarkable 18.129% viewership rating and becoming the third highest-rated series in Korean cable television history. |
| September 22 2018 | A special episode of Mr. Sunshine was broadcast, achieving an 8.937% nationwide and 9.404% in Seoul viewership rating. |
| July 7 2018 | Mr. Sunshine premiered on tvN, airing every Saturday and Sunday at 21:00 (KST) and simultaneously on Netflix internationally. |
| July 7 2018 | First episode of Mr. Sunshine aired, achieving an 8.852% nationwide viewership rating and 10.636% in Seoul, marking the highest premiere rating in the network's history at that time. |
| February 2018 | Kim Sa-rang was replaced by Kim Min-jung due to scheduling conflicts. |
| September 2017 | Filming began in various locations across South Korea, including Busan, Daegu, Gokseong County, Gyeongju, and Hapcheon County. |
| July 2017 | Kim Tae-ri was announced as the female lead, making her small-screen debut as a film actress. |
| June 2017 | Lee Byung-hun was officially cast as the male lead, marking his first television role since 'Iris' in 2009. |
| May 29 2017 | Kim Eun-sook began writing the TV series 'Mr. Sunshine' with an initial working title. |
| 2016 |
March First Movement
The National Institute of Korean History (NIKH) began compiling the March First Movement Database, a comprehensive digital archive of the anti-colonial protests.
|
| 2015 | Kim Pyong Il, son of Kim Il Sung and Kim Song-ae, became ambassador to the Czech Republic. |
| August 2015 |
March First Movement
Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan, visited Seodaemun Prison and offered an apology for the historical treatment of prisoners during the colonial period, acknowledging the suffering of Koreans under Japanese occupation.
|
| 2011 | South Korean government was criticized for not fully recognizing Korean socialists who had participated in the independence struggle against Japanese occupation. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Kim Il Sung, March First Movement, Mr. Sunshine (South Korean TV series) & Korean independence movement, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.