Person1855 – 1920

Gang U-gyu

Threw a bomb at the incoming Governor-General Saitō Makoto at Namdaemun Station, Seoul, in 1919; executed in Seodaemun Prison

A practitioner of traditional medicine, he founded schools for Koreans in northern Jiandao and the Russian Maritime Province. A member of the Korean Elders' League, he threw a bomb at the new Governor-General Saitō Makoto as he arrived at Namdaemun Station in September 1919. Saitō was unhurt, but dozens of Japanese officials, police and others were wounded.

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1919 – 1931"Cultural Rule"related figure
After the March First Movement the new Governor-General Saitō Makoto proclaimed "cultural rule". The military police gave way to a civil police and Korean newspapers were allowed, but the real aim was to cultivate collaborators and divide the nation.

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Saitō Makoto1858 – 1936
Third and fifth Governor-General of Korea, who proclaimed "cultural rule" after the March First Movement

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Republican China and Imperial Japan1912 – 1949
The age when the Republic of China, born of the 1911 Revolution, passed through warlord division, the May Fourth Movement, the United Front and the Northern Expedition, fought Japan’s invasion and split in civil war — as Japan moved from Taishō democracy through the Manchurian Incident and military coups to the war in China and the Co-Prosperity Sphere, and colonized Korea resisted through the March First Movement and armed struggle