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Politics1 April 1919

Aunae Market Protest

Ewha student Yu Gwan-sun led a market-day protest at Aunae in her home county of Cheonan. Japanese gendarmes opened fire, killing several people including her parents.

Japanese police surveillance card of Yu Gwan-sun, made after her arrest for the Aunae market protest
Japanese police surveillance card of Yu Gwan-sun, made after her arrest for the Aunae market protest

조선총독부 경기도경찰부 고등과 · Public domain · Source

Sent home when her school closed, Yu prepared with village elders a protest of some 3,000 people on market day, 1 April. She lost both parents to the gendarmes’ gunfire and was arrested; she kept shouting for independence in Seodaemun Prison and died there under torture in 1920.

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States and rulers at the time
Korea under Japanese rule — Governor-General Hasegawa Yoshimichi
Places
Aunae Market, Seodaemun Prison

People

  • Yu Gwan-sun1902 – 1920

    leader · Ewha student who led the protest at Aunae market and died in Seodaemun Prison

Before and after

Earlier
1919 Declaration of Independence and the Spread of the Protests
Later
1919 Jeam-ri Massacre