The March 1st Movement and Korea's Long Fight for Independence

Over 7,000 Koreans were massacred by Japanese officers, and over 45,000 were arrested in the fight for a free Korea--still not entirely finished.

March 1 is the anniversary of the day in 1919 when Koreans read the Korean Declaration of Independence and intensified the struggle against Japanese imperialism. On that day and in the following weeks and months and years, Koreans across the whole peninsula, as well as those in exile in the US and China, would stage demonstrations, wage guerrilla warfar…