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PoliticsApril 1907 – 1911

Sinminhoe (New People’s Association)

Ahn Chang-ho, Yang Gi-tak and others founded the secret New People’s Association, aiming to recover sovereignty and build a modern republic by fostering education and industry and setting up independence bases abroad.

Yang Gi-tak, Yun Chi-ho and others taken to trial in the 105-Man Incident of 1911, which broke up the Sinminhoe
Yang Gi-tak, Yun Chi-ho and others taken to trial in the 105-Man Incident of 1911, which broke up the Sinminhoe

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Open activity being blocked by laws such as the 1907 Security Law, it was organized in secret. It founded the Daeseong School in Pyongyang and the Osan School in Jeongju, ran the Taegeuk bookstore and a ceramics company, and used the Daehan maeil sinbo as its de facto organ.

Seeing the limits of self-strengthening alone, it also prepared for armed struggle, founding the Gyeonghaksa and the Sinheung training school (later the Sinheung Military Academy) at Samwonbo in western Jiandao in 1911. It was uncovered and broken up in the 105-Person Incident fabricated by the Japanese in 1911.

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States and rulers at the time
Korean Empire — Gojong

People

  • Ahn Chang-ho1878 – 1938

    leader · Founder of the Sinminhoe and the Heungsadan; as Interior Minister of the Provisional Government he set up the yeontongje network

  • Yang Gi-tak1871 – 1938

    leader · Co-publisher of the Daehan maeil sinbo who led the National Debt Repayment Movement and the New People’s Association

  • Yi Seung-hun1864 – 1930

    participant · Sinminhoe member who founded the Osan School in Jeongju, was jailed in the Case of the 105 and was a Christian representative in the March First Movement

  • Yi Dong-nyeong1869 – 1940

    participant · Sinminhoe member who helped found the Sinheung school in western Jiandao and served as Speaker of the Provisional Assembly and head of the Provisional Government

Before and after

Earlier
1907 National Debt Repayment Movement
Later
1907 Secret Emissaries to The Hague

Themes that include this event

  • Pyongyang194 BC – 2007

    From Wanggeom-seong of Gojoseon to the inter-Korean summits — capital of Goguryeo, Western Capital of Goryeo, the great city on the Taedong