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Independence activist Ahn Jung-geun remembered: Officials from the Ministry of Patriots & Veterans Affairs and citizens take part in a hand printing ceremony Wednesday, at the Yeouido Park in Seoul, to mark Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910)’s 1909 assassination of Hirobumi Ito, a former prime minister of Japan, in Harbin, China. Ahn held Ito responsible for the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910.
Via the Korea Times.
11:13 am on October 22nd, 2009 1
Korean Yasser Arafat.
1:08 pm on October 22nd, 2009 2
An Chunggǔn should not be celebrated as a hero. I'm glad not every Korean reveres him like that.
1:22 pm on October 22nd, 2009 3
He did the right thing for the wrong reason.
1:45 pm on October 22nd, 2009 4
Explain, Gerry. What was the right thing that he did? And why was it the wrong reason that he did it?
2:30 pm on October 22nd, 2009 5
The right thing was that he killed Ito who was responsible for the "Eulsa treaty" that made Korea a protectorate of Japan, just prior to Koreas annexation by Japan. (any korean patriot who saw his country being sold out would have done so).
The wrong reason was that he only saw Ito as misinforming the Emperor of Japan as to the emperors wishes for a more prosperous Korea.
2:40 pm on October 22nd, 2009 6
You speak of Ito as if he were the one who put in motion or engineered Japan's takeover of Korea. Why is Ito more guilty of that than Katsura or Yamagata or others?
And how would killing Ito, who had been forced to resign and was trying to stave off annexation of Korea, four years after the Ŭlsa Treaty be the right thing, even if her were "responsible" for it?
And are you saying that the Emperor of Japan had as his wishes a more prosperous Korea?
11:07 am on October 23rd, 2009 7
I knew I was in trouble after I made the statement. With some after thought, An was probobly just a little off balance and his ideas of Ito misinforming the Emperor a bit paranoid. An believed that the Emperor was much more inclined toward fair and just relationship as he was an admireror of the Emperor. Perhaps delusional.
My thoughts were more towards the annexation that occured later.
11:13 am on October 23rd, 2009 8
What's with the sports team mascot? Trying to indoctrinate kids into believing that there's nothing wrong with murder?