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Culture1922 – 1923

Movement for a National University

Yi Sang-jae and others formed a society to found a university with Korean funds and raised money nationwide. Japanese obstruction defeated it.

Dong-a Ilbo report on the national university founding association — 30 March 1923
Dong-a Ilbo report on the national university founding association — 30 March 1923

The Dong-a Ilbo · Public domain · Source

When the Second Education Ordinance allowed universities, a preparatory committee formed around the Korean Education Association in 1922, and the Society for the Establishment of a National University in 1923. Under the slogan "One won from each of the ten million Koreans" it collected funds at home and abroad.

Surveillance and obstruction by the Government-General, together with drought and floods, hampered fund-raising, and Japan defused the campaign by opening Keijō Imperial University in 1924.

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States and rulers at the time
Korea under Japanese rule — Governor-General Saitō Makoto

People

  • Yi Sang-jae1850 – 1927

    leader · Independence Club veteran who led the national university campaign and was first president of the Singanhoe

Before and after

Earlier
1921 Free City Incident
Later
1922 Second Joseon Education Ordinance

Themes that include this event

  • Educational Institutions Through the AgesAD 372 – 1943

    From the Taehak and Gukhak to the Gukjagam and Seonggyungwan, modern schools and the colonial education ordinances — state schools that trained officials and the private schools that filled the gaps