The anti-Japaness struggle in the area of Dangjin had aggressively spread out since the compulsory conclusion of Eulsa Treaty in 1905. The Righteous Army at Dangjin areas, with the Asan Bay in-between, was once in aetivity in coalition with the Righte...
The anti-Japaness struggle in the area of Dangjin had aggressively spread out since the compulsory conclusion of Eulsa Treaty in 1905. The Righteous Army at Dangjin areas, with the Asan Bay in-between, was once in aetivity in coalition with the Righteous Army from Gyeonggi district while moving between Seosan areas and Gyeonggi district by ship. In addition, there exists a characteristic of the Righteous Army-waged anti-Japanese war-that is, they exercised their struggle by using sea, such as the weakening of the aggression of the Japanese police force and guards while using Daenanji-do and Sonanji-do as their stronghold.
As a representative head of the Righteous Army to Dangjin areas, there existed a person named Jung Ju-won who was from Godae-myeon and mustered an army at Juksan, Gyeonggi-do. He attacked the Dangjin branch post and drastically punished a member to Iljinhwoe who lodged an information against the Righteous Army. He was once assigned to act as a commander-in-chief of 13 military camps[a federation of the Righteous Army from Chungnam and Chungbuk areas] while leading an the Righteous Army amounting to four or five hundred when its number was at a peak.
The Righteous Army to each military camp, except Jung, Ju-won, Choi, Ku-hyun, and Sim, Ju-hyun, etc. who are known as the nobility, mostly seems to be from the common bracket such as those engaged in agriculture, or fish mongers, or blacksmiths.
The Righteous Army from Dangjin areas exercised a brisk struggle until the summer of the year 1908 after the disbandment of the Korean army by Japanese Imperialism in August, 1907, achieving a lot of war results. They shot the Japanese police and Korean police to death, and arrested and punished Japanese merchants and members to Iljinhwoe who were eat's paws of Japanese aggression. However, after the commander of the Righteous Army at Jung ju-won was arrested in July, 1908, unit members were scattered to exercise military acts; in the meantime, some were victimized by the Japanese army and police and a lot of the Righteous Army members were arrested, enduring the hardships of prison life.