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Yesterday, August 15 1945 marks Korean Liberation Day or 광복절 (Restoration of Light) after more than 30 years of oppressive Japanese colonial rule. A thread on what that history looks like:
100s of 1000s of Koreans died under the occupation. At the time Korea was mostly agrarian; 4/5 Korean peasants were subsistence tenant farmers, going hungry contributing to Japan's wartime effort. 30,000 Korean people were in colonial prisons, many of them for thought crimes.
August 15 is the day Japan surrendered and ended WWII, prompting massive celebrations. Liberation convinced millions of overseas Koreans to return home, from Manchuria, Japan, etc. But our homeland was soon occupied by foreign forces, and the fight for liberation continued.
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