Essay 4: A Singular National Party Movement

Essay 4: A Singular National Party Movement

 

July 3rd, 1926

 

Everything seems meaningless. Although I was not a skeptic, but I’m quite not sure about my self now. It has been 5 years since 3·1 movement exuded it's high-minded voice, and The Republic of Korea's Temporary Government has established. However, I was unable to let my self being saturated in sentimentalism, because I knew that Japanese would not stay calm. After the movement, they have changed their way of govern. The rate of police department, units and budgets increased more than 3 times. A fake local autonomy system was used to deceive people and to sustain the pro-japanese group’s benefits. The major media was almost thoroughly distorted by a censorship system. A torture and violence was still prevailing, but only thing that changed was an international sentiment. Japan succeeded to suppress all the cruel facts.

 

Even worse, outside of the country where I’m staying now; Shang-Hai faced more frustrating problem. Division of Korea’s Temporary Government occurred. This is due to leaders’ three different ideology to achieve independence. Sung Man Lee has cut the Soviet’s financial aid and published a national bond in America, to lead Temporary Government as a pro-America party. However, because it failed, Dong Hwee Lee, the one of the leader questioned against Seung Man Lee’s presidential position. Seung Man Lee ignored it, so Dong Hwee Lee broke away from the government, and so do Chang Ho Ahn.

 

Though I came here to evade Japan’s hard inspection and dedicate all my life for effective resistant, but I’m now just worried about family in home Korea. Leaders forgot what we should fight for. We should fight for our nation’s earliest possible independent, not the specific political belief or theory. I’m done with this thoughtless activists. I’m going to move into my country tommorow.

 

July 5th, 1926

 

Like a proverb “The night is darkest before the dawn”, today I found mere hope in the deepest despair. I was participating at 3·1 party’s address, to say good-bye to my admiring fellows. I thought counting on abroad movement is waste of time. Suddenly, Chang Ho Ahn appeared and gave a speech. He said,

“Now, we people are arguing each one’s own opinion saying, Let’s do our revolution as a communism! or anarchism! or monarchism! However, we should not struggle with each other but take an agreed movement after establishing ‘The Great Revolutionary Organization’ with the determination to achieve national revolution. In other words, we should not follow our own benefits but fight for the big revolution party to save our people!”

Applause bursted after he finished his words, and the crowd was completely absorbed by the passion and sense of unity. After the conference, every participants who have diversity of political color gathered together and have discussion for all day.

I was able to find my comrades who share the same idea with mine. I can not acknowledge the activists who cannot gather their power because of the ideological difference. The way how should independence accomplished is important, but not much important as independence it self. I agreed with his idea that in this circumstance, the most consequential thing is to establish an united organization that can replace powerless Temporary Government.

My body is exhausted now, but my mind is clear than ever. I might have a dream about my family tonight.

 

September 6th, 1926

 

After I received a telegraph saying that my wife is very sick, I instantly went back to Korea. It was so sudden, so I could not write a diary at the moment. I was roughly close to see the unification of this area’s resistance organization. Despite of the fact that I was not at the event, but I’m encouraged by effectively reinforced national movement through the integration.

 

February 15th, 1927

 

It has been almost 8 month since I came back to Korea. My wife is completely cured, and my personal affair became stable. I eventually met some people in the pub who are talking about the three department unification movement. They expressed their excitement about combination between Communists and Nationalists. I joined their conversation carefully and said that I was involved in that movement in Shang-Hai. After a minute, they asked me few questions and told me to come here again at march 6th, and leaved the pub.

For I can not go abroad because Japan’s inspection was reinforced, thus I felt a need to establish an integration movement inside of the country too. I guess this might be the chance to strengthen domestic activist’s network system.

 

February 13th, 1928

 

Now a days, New Root Assembly’s scale became enormous. We are structured with nearly 40,000 members who are from Chosun Youth Total Alliance, Chosun Farmer Total Alliance, Chosun Laborer Total Alliance and so on. Our general principle is,
First, We deny all kinds of opportunism.

Second, We stimulate political economical awakening.

Third, We intense the solidarity.

We are exhibiting a public lecture in every area in this country, to enlighten people to fight against Japan, and to inspire patriotism. We also fight for a tenant right and support the alliance absence from school.

I hope that this organization yield both social psychological and independence and political awakening to our nation’s people. Whatever the form is, we should not make any kinds of compromise with Japan, especially like joining to self-government movement. We should be prudent on this kind of objects to not be deceived. We will never surrender until the day when our people hold their own sovereignty and govern themselves by democratic spirit come.