Anarchism in Korea dates to the Korean independence
movement under Japan's early 20th century
occupation.
Korean anarchists federated across their end
of the continent but their efforts were perforated
by regional and world wars.
== History ==
Japan's occupation of Korea in 1910 encouraged
a national liberation movement whose more
radical proponents gravitated towards anarchism.
In 1923, Sin Chaeho released his "Declaration
of the Korean Revolution", which cautioned
Koreans against replacing one oppressor with
another, or becoming a society that would
exploit another.
He pushed for the revolution to guarantee
new freedoms and material improvements, not
just the removal of foreign control.
The Korean anarchists named their newspaper
Talhwan (Conquest) and advocated for anarcho-communism.
Sin Chaeho joined other Korean anarchists
in creating the Eastern Anarchist Federation
from exile in 1927 with members across China,
Japan, and Vietnam.Following the end of World
War II, Korea was the first southeast Asia
region to see a sizable anarchist movement,
given state communism in China and repression
in occupied Japan.
While the Korean Anarchist Federation opposed
a united national front before the war, during
the war, some anarchists joined their exiled
government in the fight for independence.
Some anarchists encouraged alliance with the
government to protect Korea against foreign
invaders, and others continued to advocate
for a federation of autonomous units across
the country.
After the war, workers and peasants began
a process of social reconstruction through
independent unions, but this process was stunted
by the imposition of government from foreign
forces in 1948, which led to the Korean War
in the 1950s.
== See also ==
Anarchist Shinmin
Communism in Korea
Ha Ki-rak
Kim Chwa-chin
March 1st Movement
Pak Yol
== References ==
== Bibliography ==
== Further reading ==
The Story of the Korean Anarchists and the
Anarchist Revolution in Manchuria, 1929-1931
Anarchism in the Korean Liberation Movement
Dongyoun Hwang (2016).
Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism,
and the Question of National Development,
1919-1984.
SUNY Press.
ISBN 978-1-4384-6167-0.
== External links ==
Korean Anarchism History from the Anarchy
Archives.
Transcript of a talk given by Alan MacSimoin
to the Workers Solidarity Movement in 1991.
"Non-Western Anarchisms : Rethinking the Global
Context" by Jason Adams.
Orwell in Iraq: Obama Wants to Defeat ISIS,
But Not That Badly (2014-09-01).
Kevin Carson on the commonalities between
some aspects of modern Kurdistan and anarchism
in postwar Korea.
