The End of the First World War and the Korean Independence Movement: Koreans' Reaction to the Principle of Self-Determination

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  • 第一次世界大戦の終結と朝鮮独立運動 --民族「自決」と民族「改造」--
  • ダイイチジ セカイ タイセン ノ シュウケツ ト チョウセン ドクリツ ウンドウ : ミンゾク 「 ジケツ 」 ト ミンゾク 「 カイゾウ 」

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This paper aims to examine the relationship between the Korean Independence Movement and the end of World War I. After the United States entry into the war in 1917, Korean activists gave up the plan to achieve independence taking advantage of Japan's defeat and made preparations to expand their rights during the forthcoming peace conference. Chapter 1 elucidated how Korean activists recognized the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson's peace plan, analyzing the League for Small and Subject Nationalities which Koreans took part in. This organization was formed in New York by Europeans residing in the United States. Chapter 2 discussed how Koreans reacted to the principle of self-determination while this principle became major agenda of the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson's view on "nation" with an emphasis on a political community's capability of democratic self-governing. Korean activists had understood such Wilson's concept of the "nation". Therefore, they appealed about their democratic self-governing capabilities to Paris Peace Conference. Chapter 3 dealt with Reconstruction Movement developed in Korean Peninsula in early 1920s. This movement was reflected in Korean's WWI experiences.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 110 1-21, 2017-07-31

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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