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soryang

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12. The new Declaration by "Free Chosun" read 100 years after the 3.1.19 demonstration...

Reply to soryang (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 16, 2019, 04:23 PM

Mar 2019

...in the same location where the demonstrations for independence from Japan began in Tapsol Park, Seoul, one hundred years earlier, but one day early- the day US North Korean negotiations failed.

About the original Samil event- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1st_Movement

The declaration was read by an unidentified South Korean woman dressed in traditional hanbok with her face disguised. Unlike the reported 2 million people who participated in 1500 Samil demonstrations across Korea in 1919, no one showed for the Feb 28 event.

From the "Free Chosun" video:

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The new Declaration by "Free Chosun" read 100 years after the 3.1.19 demonstration... soryang Mar 2019 #12