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Some of these figures contributed to or benefitted from <a href="/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule" title="Korea under Japanese rule">Japan's colonization of Korea</a>, and some actively worked to counter the <a href="/wiki/Korean_independence_movement" title="Korean independence movement">Korean independence movement</a>. These people are now considered by much of Korea to have been collaborators with Japan, and thus traitors to Korea. </p><p>Examples of such people include members of the <a href="/wiki/Iljinhoe" title="Iljinhoe">Iljinhoe</a> or <a href="/wiki/Five_Eulsa_Traitors" title="Five Eulsa Traitors">Five Eulsa Traitors</a>. </p><p>Prosecution of collaborators began after the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberation of Korea">liberation of Korea</a>, although the prosecution was interfered with by the South Korean leader <a href="/wiki/Syngman_Rhee" title="Syngman Rhee">Syngman Rhee</a>. Prosecution returned after the gradual <a href="/wiki/Democratization" title="Democratization">democratization</a> during the 1980s and 1990s. The first anti-collaborator legislation was passed in 2005: the <a href="/wiki/Special_Law_to_Redeem_Pro-Japanese_Collaborators%27_Property" title="Special Law to Redeem Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property">Special Law to Redeem Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property</a>. </p><p><b><span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">Chinilpa</i></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>: <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">친일파</span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a>: <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hani">親日派</span></span>; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> pro-Japan faction) and <b><span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">bu-ilbae</i></span></b> (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">부일배</span></span>; <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hani">附日輩</span></span>; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> people who collaborated with Japan) are words used to describe collaborators. These terms can be considered derogatory. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Terminology">Terminology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Terminology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term "<span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">chinilpa</i></span>" (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">친일파</span></span>) first appeared in the 1966 book <span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">Chinilmunhangnon</i></span> (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">친일문학론</span></span>; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> Comments on Pro-Japanese Literature), written by the Korean independence activist Im Jong-Guk. Before its publication, it was common to call collaborators <i><span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">bu-ilbae</i></span></i> (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">부일배</span></span>; <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hani">附日輩</span></span>; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> people who collaborated with Japan). The term was generally targeted at Korean colonial leadership.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The term is distinct from <span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">ji-ilpa</i></span> (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">지일파</span></span>; <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hani">知日派</span></span>; <abbr title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> knowledgeable-about-Japan faction), which has a politically neutral connotation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonial_period">Colonial period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Colonial period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While it has taken on a meaning of "[national] traitor", only a minority of the early collaborators were opportunists, as most of the collaborator high officials in the beginning believed they were doing what was in the best interests of their country as it struggled to adapt to modernity; the collaborators were one of a number of factions that existed at that time which were concerned with modernizing Korea along a pattern set by another country (e.g. Russian faction, Chinese faction, American faction, and so on).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the term itself was not coined until 1966 by scholar Im Chongguk (1929–1989). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Treatment_of_collaborators_following_independence">Treatment of collaborators following independence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Treatment of collaborators following independence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the immediate liberation of Korea, American General <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a> initially requested that the Japanese colonial authorities and their Korean trainees continue to run Korea until natives could be trained to replace them. Nonetheless, Korean outrage did lead to the former being purged, but many of the latter collaborators were able to hold onto their positions. Similar to the United States' incomplete <a href="/wiki/Denazification" title="Denazification">denazification</a> of Germany and <a href="/wiki/Reverse_Course" title="Reverse Course">reverse course</a> in Japan, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Military_Government_in_Korea" title="United States Army Military Government in Korea">United States Military Government of Korea</a> saw these right-wing collaborator officials as useful in light of the nascent <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and deteriorating situation in the <a href="/wiki/Korean_Peninsula" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean Peninsula">Korean Peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Special_Investigation_Committee_of_Anti-National_Activities" title="Special Investigation Committee of Anti-National Activities">Special Committee for Prosecution of Anti-National Offenders</a> (<span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">반민특위</span></span>; <span title="Korean-language romanization"><i lang="ko-Latn">banmin teugwi</i></span>) was set up in 1948 to prosecute the collaborators. It handled 682 cases; 559 cases were handed over to a special prosecutor's office, which handed down indictments in 221 cases. A special tribunal tried 38 cases, sentenced guilty verdicts and punishments in 12 cases including one death sentence. Eighteen others had their civil rights suspended, six others were declared innocent and the remaining two were found guilty but were exempted from punishment. However, the Supreme Court suspended their execution in March 1950, just before the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The dictator at that time, <a href="/wiki/Syngman_Rhee" title="Syngman Rhee">Syngman Rhee</a>, sabotaged and dissolved the <i>banmin teugwi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under <a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Korea" title="First Republic of Korea">Rhee's regime</a> and in subsequent governments before the <a href="/wiki/Sixth_Republic_of_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Sixth Republic of Korea">Sixth Republic</a>, many of them enjoyed the same wealth and power they had under Japanese rule. Rhee employed many former collaborators in government and <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Korea_Armed_Forces" title="Republic of Korea Armed Forces">military</a> in order to combat <a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> and communist sympathizers in South Korea. The next of South Korea's prominent dictators, <a href="/wiki/Park_Chung_Hee" title="Park Chung Hee">Park Chung Hee</a>, was himself a collaborator who served in the Imperial Japanese military system.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, collaborators were seen as a somewhat taboo subject given that many authorities were at one time collaborators themselves, and thus criticism of collaborators could be seen as questioning the legitimacy of the regime.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar pressure to silence was also applied to some collaborator literary figures.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early study into collaborators was done by "maverick scholar" Im Chongguk (1929–1989), whose 1966 work <i>Ch'inil Munhak-ron</i> (친일문학<b>론</b> Treatise on Pro-Japanese Literature) broke the silence on the subject matter.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although it was obscure in its day and didn't have a wide readership, a smattering of articles on the subject appeared in the late 1970s and by the 1980s, Im took his quarter-century's worth of study on the subject and began to publish more systemic works about collaborators in general, not just literary studies. Chongguk's personal zeal about honestly examining darker pages from national history were not very popular in his day, but by the 1990s, his legacy had strengthened and the topic became more accepted by the South Korean public. However, the old stigma still persisted to some extent in academia, as established mainstream scholars were seemingly "reluctant to dabble in such an irrelevant and 'humiliating' subject" as collaborators, and much of the interest and writing on the topic came from junior scholars and nonacademics such as independent researchers, literary critics, and journalists.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prosecution_of_collaborators_in_the_21st_century">Prosecution of collaborators in the 21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Prosecution of collaborators in the 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After more than 50 years have passed since the end of prosecution of collaborators under the Syngman Rhee administration, the prosecution restarted abruptly as a political agenda of President Roh Moo-hyun. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Definition_of_collaborators_by_the_Special_Law">Definition of collaborators by the Special Law</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Definition of collaborators by the Special Law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The newly enacted Special Law on the Inspection of Collaborations for the Japanese Imperialism<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> defines "pro-Japanese and anti-national actions" (<span title="Revised Romanization of Korean transliteration"><i lang="ko-Latn">chinilpa</i></span>) as follows. </p> <dl><dd>article 2</dd> <dd>Under this act, the "pro-Japanese and anti-national actions" means any of the following actions committed between the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War" title="Russo-Japanese War">Russo-Japanese War</a> that began the deprivation of Korean sovereignty by the Japanese imperialism and August 15, 1945. <dl><dd>1. Any act to attack or order to attack the military forces fighting against the Japanese imperialism to keep sovereign power.</dd> <dd>3. Any act to kill, execute, harass or arrest the persons or their families participating in the independent movement or anti-Japanese movement, and an act to instruct or order those violences thereto.</dd> <dd>6. Any act to agree, join or conspire the treaties that interfered with the sovereign power including <a href="/wiki/Eulsa_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Eulsa Treaty">Eulsa Treaty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan-Korea_Annexation_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty">Korean-Japanese Annexation Treaty</a> and others.</dd> <dd>8. Any act of participating in the Assembly of Japanese Empire as a member of the Noble Class or member of Japanese Assembly.</dd> <dd>9. Any act of participating as vice chairman, advisor or House of Representatives for the Senate of the Choson Government-General.</dd> <dd>10. Any act of positively cooperate with the invasion war (WW2) as an officer above lieutenant of the Japanese imperial forces.</dd> <dd>14. Any act to operate the military supply manufacturing to help the warfare of the Japanese imperialism or donate certain amount of or more money and goods determined under the Presidential Decree.</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>The law is concerned about the independence movement, unlike the ex-Nazi prosecution which concentrates on the war crimes. Most remarkable are items 8 and 9. Being a law-maker during that time qualifies one as a "pro-Japanese and anti-national Collaborator" regardless of what one did as a law-maker. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Developments">Developments</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On August 29, 2005, a civic organization, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Institute_for_Research_in_Collaborationist_Activities&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities (page does not exist)">Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities</a> disclosed a list of 3094 Korean collaborator suspects including <a href="/wiki/Park_Chung_Hee" title="Park Chung Hee">Park Chung Hee</a>, the former Korean president, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Seong-su" title="Kim Seong-su">Kim Seong-su</a>, a former publisher of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dong-A_Ilbo" title="The Dong-A Ilbo">The Dong-A Ilbo</a></i> and the founder of <a href="/wiki/Korea_University" title="Korea University">Korea University</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bang_Eung-mo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bang Eung-mo (page does not exist)">Bang Eung-mo</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%A9%EC%9D%91%EB%AA%A8" class="extiw" title="ko:방응모">ko</a>]</span>, a former president of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chosun_Ilbo" title="The Chosun Ilbo">The Chosun Ilbo</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 6, 2006, a South Korean presidential commission, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Investigative_Commission_on_Pro-Japanese_Collaborators%27_Property&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Investigative Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property (page does not exist)">Investigative Commission on Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property</a> revealed the first official collaborators list of 106 persons during 1904 to <a href="/wiki/March_First_Movement" title="March First Movement">March First Movement</a> in 1919 was including four of the <a href="/wiki/Five_Eulsa_Traitors" title="Five Eulsa Traitors">Five Eulsa Traitors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 18, 2006, the commission started the investigation before seizing the property obtained by collaborators during Japanese colonization.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 2, 2007, the South Korean government announced its plan to seize assets gained by pro-Japanese collaborators during Japanese colonial rule amounting 3.6 billion won (US$3.9 million, €2.8 million) worth of land from the descendants of nine pro-Japanese collaborators.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On August 13, 2007, the commission decided to confiscate about 1 million square meters of land valued at 25.7 billion won that is now owned by the descendants of another ten pro-Japanese collaborators.<sup id="cite_ref-KT070813_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KT070813-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 17, 2007, the commission revealed the second list of 202 collaborators focused on pro-Japanese figures between 1919 and 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The list includes <a href="/wiki/Song_Byeong-jun" title="Song Byeong-jun">Song Byeong-jun</a> who sent letters to the Japanese government asking for a merger, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Ji-yong" title="Lee Ji-yong">Lee Ji-yong</a>, who is one of the Five Eulsa Traitors, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lee_Doo-hwang&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lee Doo-hwang (page does not exist)">Lee Doo-hwang</a>, who participated in the murder of <a href="/wiki/Empress_Myeongseong" title="Empress Myeongseong">Empress Myeongseong</a> in 1895 and later became a governor of the <a href="/wiki/North_Jeolla_Province" title="North Jeolla Province">North Jeolla Province</a>, a novelist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yi_In-jik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yi In-jik (page does not exist)">Yi In-jik</a>, the author of <i>Hyeoleuinu (Tears of Blood)</i>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoo_Hak-ju&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yoo Hak-ju (page does not exist)">Yoo Hak-ju</a>, a council member of the <a href="/wiki/Iljinhoe" title="Iljinhoe">Iljinhoe</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bae_Jeong-ja&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bae Jeong-ja (page does not exist)">Bae Jeong-ja</a>, foster daughter of the first <a href="/wiki/Resident-General_of_Korea" class="mw-redirect" title="Resident-General of Korea">Resident-General of Korea</a> who spied on Korean independence activists and recruited <a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">comfort women</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Park_Je-bin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Park Je-bin (page does not exist)">Park Je-bin</a>, who formed a tribute group to pay condolences at Ito's funeral in 1926. On the same day, the Seoul administrative court rejected a lawsuit against the commission to erase the names of the son and grandson of <a href="/wiki/Daewon-gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Daewon-gun">Daewon-gun</a> (father of <a href="/wiki/Gojong_of_the_Korean_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Gojong of the Korean Empire">Gojong of the Korean Empire</a>) from the list, who allegedly attended the signing of the <a href="/wiki/Japan-Korea_Annexation_Treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty">Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty</a> as representatives of the royal family. </p><p>The official list during the most controversial period (1937–1945) that may contain persons who played important roles in South Korean development after the independence and enlisted in the 2005 list of the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities had not been revealed as of September 2007. </p><p>Since the enactment of the <a href="/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Korea)" title="Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Korea)">Special Law on the Inspection of Collaboration with Japanese Imperialism</a> in 2004 and the <a href="/wiki/Special_law_to_redeem_pro-Japanese_collaborators%27_property" class="mw-redirect" title="Special law to redeem pro-Japanese collaborators' property">special law to redeem pro-Japanese collaborators' property</a> in 2005, the committee has made a list of 452 pro-Japanese collaborators and examined the land of 109 among them. The total size of the land is estimated at 13.1 million square meters, worth almost 100 billion won.<sup id="cite_ref-KT070813_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KT070813-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The confiscated properties will be appropriated, with priority, to reward Koreans who contributed to the independence of Korea from Japan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japanese war crimes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Korea" title="Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea">Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_Eulsa_Traitors" title="Five Eulsa Traitors">Five Eulsa Traitors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_disputes" title="Japan–Korea disputes">Japan–Korea disputes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan–Korea relations">Japan–Korea relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_traitor" title="Race traitor">Race traitor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quisling" title="Quisling">Quisling</a> - Scandinavian and English equivalent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makapili" title="Makapili">Makapili</a> – Filipino equivalent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanjian" title="Hanjian">Hanjian</a> – Chinese equivalent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judenrat" title="Judenrat">Judenrat</a> - Jewish equivalent in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Razakar_(Pakistan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Razakar (Pakistan)">Razakar (Pakistan)</a> - Bangladeshi equivalent</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKillick2001" class="citation journal cs1">Killick, Andrew P. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-10-04</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Welcome+to+PCIC&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcic.go.kr%3A8088%2Fpcic%2Fenglish-1.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKorean+collaborators+with+Imperial+Japan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29160">"KOREA: Ex-leader Park on list of 3,000 Japan collaborators"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051106075738/http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=29160">Archived</a> 2005-11-06 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Korea_Herald" title="The Korea Herald">The Korea Herald</a>/AsiaMedia-<a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a>, August 30, 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/society/200612/h2006120700235521950.htm">"정부차원의 첫 보고서 친일청산 논란 재점화"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091303/http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/society/200612/h2006120700235521950.htm">Archived</a> 2007-09-29 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Korea_Times" title="The Korea Times">The Korea Times</a>, 2006/12/07.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080521144210/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/news_view.asp?newsIdx=2951059">"Assets of Japan Collaborators to Be Seized"</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Korea_Times" title="The Korea Times">The Korea Times</a>, 08-13-2006</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/02/asia/AS-GEN-SKorea-Japan-Collaborators.php">"SKorea to seize assets of collaborators in Japanese colonial era for first time"</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Associated_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="The Associated Press">The Associated Press</a>/<a href="/wiki/The_International_Herald_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="The International Herald Tribune">The International Herald Tribune</a>, May 2, 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-KT070813-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-KT070813_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-KT070813_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=8259&categoryCode=117">"State to Confiscate Land of Pro-Japanese Collaborators"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191442/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=8259&categoryCode=117">Archived</a> September 27, 2007, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Korea_Times" title="The Korea Times">The Korea Times</a>, 2007-08-13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bae Ji-sook, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080521144147/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=10320&categoryCode=117">"202 Pro-Japanese Collaborators Disclosed"</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Korea_Times" title="The Korea Times">The Korea Times</a>, 09-17-2007.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Korean)</span> 강인식, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=2887718">"법원 `친일파 공개 적절`"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163527/http://article.joins.com/article/article.asp?total_id=2887718">Archived</a> 2008-05-21 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <a href="/wiki/JoongAng_Ilbo" title="JoongAng Ilbo">JoongAng Ilbo</a>, 2007.09.18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="languageicon">(in Japanese)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://japanese.joins.com/article/article.php?aid=91235">"宋秉畯ら第２期親日反民族行為者２０２人を選定"</a>, <a href="/wiki/JoongAng_Ilbo" title="JoongAng Ilbo">JoongAng Ilbo</a>, 2007.09.17.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Korean_collaborators_with_Imperial_Japan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080521193351/http://www.pcic.go.kr:8088/pcic/english-1.htm">Special Law on the Inspection of Collaborations for the Japanese Imperialism</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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href="/wiki/Axis_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis forces">Axis forces</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> and<br /><a href="/wiki/Fascist_Italy" title="Fascist Italy">Italian</a> collaborationists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Albanian collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Fascist_Militia" title="Albanian Fascist Militia">Albanian Fascist Militia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balli_Komb%C3%ABtar" title="Balli Kombëtar">Balli Kombëtar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cham_Albanian_collaboration_with_the_Axis" title="Cham Albanian collaboration with the Axis">Cham Albanian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armistice_Army" title="Armistice Army">Armistice Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battaglione_Azad_Hindoustan" title="Battaglione Azad Hindoustan">Battaglione Azad Hindoustan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Home_Defence" title="Belarusian Home Defence">Belarusian Home Defence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Division" title="Blue Division">Blue Division</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chetniks" title="Chetniks">Chetniks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_Armed_Forces_(Independent_State_of_Croatia)" title="Croatian Armed Forces (Independent State of Croatia)">Croatian Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces" title="Finnish Defence Forces">Finnish Defence Forces</a> <small>(until 1944)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Square_(Iraq)" title="Golden Square (Iraq)">Golden Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiwi_(volunteer)" title="Hiwi (volunteer)">Hiwi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalmykian_Cavalry_Corps" title="Kalmykian Cavalry Corps">Kalmykian Cavalry Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Auxiliary_Police" title="Latvian Auxiliary Police">Latvian Auxiliary Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Committee_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Committee of Azerbaijan">National Committee of Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Army" title="National Republican Army">National Republican Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_in_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands">National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Armed_Forces" title="Romanian Armed Forces">Romanian Armed Forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Hungarian_Army" title="Royal Hungarian Army">Royal Hungarian Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Iraqi_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Iraqi Army">Royal Iraqi Army</a></li> <li>Russian collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Army" title="Russian Liberation Army">Russian Liberation Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="Russian People's Liberation Army">Russian People's Liberation Army</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Security_Battalions" title="Security Battalions">Security Battalions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Expeditionary_Army_Group" title="Slovak Expeditionary Army Group">Slovak Expeditionary Army Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovene_Home_Guard" title="Slovene Home Guard">Slovene Home Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists" title="Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists">Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army" title="Ukrainian Insurgent Army">Ukrainian Insurgent Army</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts" title="Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts">Waffen-SS foreign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts" title="Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts">Wehrmacht foreign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afrika_Korps" title="Afrika Korps">Afrika Korps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_enrolment_in_German-occupied_Poland" title="Military enrolment in German-occupied Poland">Polish Wehrmacht Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostlegionen" title="Ostlegionen">Ostlegionen</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese</a> collaborationists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Arakan Defense Army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armistice_Army" title="Armistice Army">Armistice Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Columns" title="Black Columns">Black Columns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burma_Independence_Army" title="Burma Independence Army">Burma Independence Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinjiang_Wars" title="Xinjiang Wars">Central Asian collaborators</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Turkestan_independence_movement" title="East Turkestan independence movement">East Turkestan independence movement</a></li></ul></li> <li>Chin Defense Army</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collaborationist_Chinese_Army" title="Collaborationist Chinese Army">Collaborationist Chinese Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defenders_of_the_Homeland" title="Defenders of the Homeland">Defenders of the Homeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gakutotai" title="Gakutotai">Gakutotai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gando_Special_Force" title="Gando Special Force">Gando Special Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Square_(Iraq)" title="Golden Square (Iraq)">Golden Square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heiho" title="Heiho">Heiho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Army" title="Indian National Army">Indian National Army</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Indian_National_Army" title="First Indian National Army">First Indian National Army</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolian_Army" title="Inner Mongolian Army">Inner Mongolian Army</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Korean collaborators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party" title="Lanka Sama Samaja Party">Lanka Sama Samaja Party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makapili" title="Makapili">Makapili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Defenders_of_the_Homeland" title="Defenders of the Homeland">Malayan Volunteer Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchukuo_Imperial_Army" title="Manchukuo Imperial Army">Manchukuo Imperial Army</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_Armed_Forces" title="Royal Thai Armed Forces">Royal Thai Armed Forces</a></li> <li>Russian collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manchukuo_Imperial_Army" title="Manchukuo Imperial Army">Asano Brigade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Fascist_Party" title="Russian Fascist Party">Russian Fascist Party</a></li></ul></li> <li>Taiwanese collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Imperial_Japan_Serviceman" title="Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman">Taiwanese Imperial Japan Serviceman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takasago_Volunteers" title="Takasago Volunteers">Takasago Volunteers</a></li></ul></li> <li>Vietnamese collaborators <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam_Quang_Ph%E1%BB%A5c_H%E1%BB%99i" title="Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội">Association for the Restoration of Great Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanguard_Youth_(Vietnam)" title="Vanguard Youth (Vietnam)">Vanguard Youth</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lists by <a href="/wiki/Axis_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Axis countries">Axis countries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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in German-occupied Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romania_in_World_War_II" title="Romania in World War II">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_National_Salvation" title="Government of National Salvation">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Republic_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Slovak Republic (1939–1945)">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collaboration_in_the_German-occupied_Soviet_Union" title="Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Byelorussian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany" title="Byelorussian collaboration with Nazi Germany">Byelorussia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Central_Council" title="Belarusian Central Council">Belarus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940%E2%80%931944_insurgency_in_Chechnya" title="1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya">Chechnya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany" title="Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany">Ukraine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spain_during_World_War_II" title="Spain during World War II">Spain</a> <small>(limited)</small></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thailand_in_World_War_II" title="Thailand in World War II">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule" title="Taiwan under Japanese rule">Taiwan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Korea_under_Japanese_rule" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Empire of Japan</a> from 1910 to 1945</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_Ch%C5%8Dsen" title="Governor-General of Chōsen">Governor-General of Chōsen</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Japanese_governors-general_of_Korea" title="List of Japanese governors-general of Korea">list</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Korean_Army" title="Japanese Korean Army">Japanese Korean Army</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Seal of the Government-General of Korea"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Goshichi_no_kiri.svg/80px-Goshichi_no_kiri.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" 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Dynasty">Office of the Yi Dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dshi-kaimei" title="Sōshi-kaimei">Sōshi-kaimei</a> (1939–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinto_in_Korea" title="Shinto in Korea">Shinto in Korea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/State_Shinto" title="State Shinto">State Shinto</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Korea_(1909%E2%80%931950)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of Korea (1909–1950)">Bank of Korea (1909–1950)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hwacheon_Dam" title="Hwacheon Dam">Hwacheon Dam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_yen" title="Korean yen">Korean yen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sup%27ung_Dam" title="Sup'ung Dam">Sup'ung Dam</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Companies" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Companies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dsen_Anthracite_Company" title="Chōsen Anthracite Company">Chōsen Anthracite Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dsen_Government_Railway" title="Chōsen Government Railway">Chōsen Government Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chosen_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Chosen Railway">Chosen Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Development_Company" title="Oriental Development Company">Oriental Development Company</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Controversies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">Comfort women</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_former_comfort_women#Korea" title="List of former comfort women">list</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakhalin_Koreans" title="Sakhalin Koreans">Sakhalin Koreans</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Forced labor</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aso_Mining_forced_labor_controversy" title="Aso Mining forced labor controversy">Aso Mining forced labor controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hashima_Island" title="Hashima Island">Hashima Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Women%27s_Volunteer_Labour_Corps" title="Korean Women's Volunteer Labour Corps">Korean Women's Volunteer Labour Corps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sado_Island" title="Sado Island">Sado Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan#World_War_II" title="Slavery in Japan">Slavery during World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utoro,_Uji" title="Utoro, Uji">Utoro, Uji</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Events</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/105-Man_Incident" title="105-Man Incident">105-Man Incident</a> (1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_First_Movement" title="March First Movement">March First Movement</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeamri_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Jeamri Massacre">Jeamri Massacre</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fengwudong" title="Battle of Fengwudong">Battle of Fengwudong</a> (1920) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Samdunja" title="Battle of Samdunja">Battle of Samdunja</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Qingshanli" title="Battle of Qingshanli">Battle of Qingshanli</a> (1920)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gando_Massacre" title="Gando Massacre">Gando Massacre</a> (1920–1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinano_River_incident" title="Shinano River incident">Shinano River incident</a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_Massacre" title="Kantō Massacre">Kantō Massacre</a> (1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_Tenth_Movement" title="June Tenth Movement">June Tenth Movement</a> (1926)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwangju_Student_Independence_Movement" title="Gwangju Student Independence Movement">Gwangju Student Independence Movement</a> (1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hongkou_Park_Incident" title="Hongkou Park Incident">Hongkou Park Incident</a> (1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pochonbo" title="Battle of Pochonbo">Battle of Pochonbo</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Language_Society_Incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Korean Language Society Incident">Korean Language Society Incident</a> (1942)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Chinilpa" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinilpa"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: black; text-decoration: inherit;">Collaborators</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Five_Eulsa_Traitors" title="Five Eulsa Traitors">Five Eulsa Traitors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Sa-ik" title="Hong Sa-ik">Hong Sa-ik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iljinhoe" title="Iljinhoe">Iljinhoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_History_Compilation_Committee" title="Korean History Compilation Committee">Korean History Compilation Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Yeong-hyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Park Yeong-hyo">Park Yeong-hyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refrain_Club" title="Refrain Club">Refrain Club</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Park_Jung-yang" class="mw-redirect" title="Park Jung-yang">Park Jung-yang</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Song_Byeong-jun" title="Song Byeong-jun">Song Byeong-jun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yi_Yun-yong_(general)" title="Yi Yun-yong (general)">Yi Yun-yong</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Korean_independence_movement" title="Korean independence movement"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: black; text-decoration: inherit;">Independence movement</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Declaration_of_Independence" title="Korean Declaration of Independence">Declaration of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Club" title="Independence Club">Independence Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_National_Association" title="Korean National Association">Korean National Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_militant_Korean_independence_activist_organizations" title="List of militant Korean independence activist organizations">List of militant independence organizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Korean_independence_activists" title="List of Korean independence activists">List of independence activists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provisional_Government_of_the_Republic_of_Korea" title="Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea">Provisional Government</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Places and structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Altteureu_Airfield" title="Altteureu Airfield">Altteureu Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gyeongbokgung" title="Gyeongbokgung">Gyeongbokgung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government-General_Museum_of_Ch%C5%8Dsen" title="Government-General Museum of Chōsen">Government-General Museum of Chōsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heij%C5%8D_Shrine" title="Heijō Shrine">Heijō Shrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyochang_Park" title="Hyochang Park">Hyochang Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_General_Government_Building,_Seoul" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese General Government Building, Seoul">Japanese General Government Building, Seoul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keij%C5%8D" title="Keijō">Keijō</a> (Seoul)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keij%C5%8D_Post_Office" title="Keijō Post Office">Keijō Post Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keij%C5%8D_Shrine" title="Keijō Shrine">Keijō Shrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keij%C5%8D_Imperial_University" title="Keijō Imperial University">Keijō Imperial University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seodaemun_Prison" title="Seodaemun Prison">Seodaemun Prison</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment_in_Korea" title="Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea">Anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Korean_sentiment_in_Japan" title="Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan">Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Yasukuni_Shrine" title="Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine">Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93Korea_disputes" title="Japan–Korea disputes">Japan–Korea disputes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93North_Korea_relations" title="Japan–North Korea relations">Japan–North Korea relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_relations" title="Japan–South Korea relations">Japan–South Korea relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controversies" title="Japanese history textbook controversies">Japanese history textbook controversies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan" title="List of war apology statements issued by Japan">List of war apology statements issued by Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Division_of_Korea" title="Division of Korea">Division of Korea</a> (1945–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koreans_in_Japan" title="Koreans in Japan">Koreans in Japan</a> (1945–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hibakusha" title="Hibakusha">Hibakusha</a> (1945–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco" title="Treaty of San Francisco">Treaty of San Francisco</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea" title="Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea">Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Hall_of_Korea" title="Independence Hall of Korea">Independence Hall of Korea</a> (1987–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murayama_Statement" title="Murayama Statement">Murayama Statement</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Law_to_Redeem_Pro-Japanese_Collaborators%27_Property" title="Special Law to Redeem Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property">Special Law to Redeem Pro-Japanese Collaborators' Property</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Japanese_Colonial_History_in_Korea" title="Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea">Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea</a> (2018–)</li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Comfort_women" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women"><span class="tmpl-colored-link" style="color: black; text-decoration: inherit;">Comfort women</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Futsukaichi_Rest_Home" title="Futsukaichi Rest Home">Futsukaichi Rest Home</a> (1946–1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Korean_Council_for_the_Women_Drafted_for_Military_Sexual_Slavery_by_Japan" title="The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan">The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan</a> (1990–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wednesday_demonstration" title="Wednesday demonstration">Wednesday demonstration</a> (1992–)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kono_Statement" title="Kono Statement">Kono Statement</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Women%27s_Fund" title="Asian Women's Fund">Asian Women's Fund</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_Shimonoseki_Trial" title="1998 Shimonoseki Trial">Shimonoseki Trial</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_International_War_Crimes_Tribunal_on_Japan%27s_Military_Sexual_Slavery" title="Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery">Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery</a> (2000)</li> <li><a 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