Korean Language Society Incident

Japan branded the Korean Language Society an independence organization and imprisoned its members. Yi Yun-jae and Han Jing died in custody and the society was dissolved.

An investigation that began in 1942 with a line in a schoolgirl’s diary at Yeongsaeng Girls’ High School in Hamheung led to Jeong Tae-jin, who worked on the dictionary, and some thirty members were arrested under the Peace Preservation Law. Yi Yun-jae and Han Jing died under torture, and Yi Geuk-ro, Choe Hyeon-bae and others stayed in prison until liberation. The dictionary work stopped.