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Many traces of the Japanese colonial era, which should disappear now, remain in many parts of Korea.

We told you yesterday (25th) that there are many such places in schools, but there are also many monuments of independence activists made in Japanese style.



Reporter Im Sang-beom covered this.



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The hometown of martyr Yu Gwan-sun and the Aunae Market site in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, where he led the March 1st Independence Movement.



After going up the hill for a while, there is a tower built in 1947 right after liberation.



The name is 'Aunae Independence Movement Memorial Monument'.



From the outline of the national independence movement, the names of the instigators, and the martyrdom process, Widang Jeong In-bo wrote the inscriptions.


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This is the so-called 'Sangchumbi' with a trapezoidal tip on a square stone pillar on the 6th floor.



Uui-dong, Seoul, where Son Byung-hee, 33 national representatives of the March 1st Movement, is sleeping.



The information tower indicating the location of the cemetery is also of the same type with a sharp point on a square pillar.



It is quite different from the tombstones and monuments commonly found in national cemeteries or memorial facilities such as the National Cemetery.



If so, where did these monuments in the form of prizes come from?



A photo of the graves of Japanese soldiers who died during the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.



It was the Sangchumbi that was adopted as a tombstone for the military by the Japanese imperialists, which was moving towards militarism.



[Lee Sun-woo / Senior Researcher, National Research Institute: In the case of the Japanese Navy, this related regulation first appeared in 1879 or



so. ] A

copy of the Japanese style remains to this day.]



It can be seen that it was popular at one time during the Japanese colonial period, mainly among pro-Japanese groups, to the extent that it appeared in newspaper advertisements.



[Lee Soon-woo / Senior Researcher, National Research Institute: If you look here, this is a slightly new form.

Even though this is in the 1910s, it is already in such a state that we are naturally accepting this style itself.]



77 years of liberation.



We must quickly correct these Japanese-style monuments that further dishonor the forgotten independence activists.



(Video coverage: Lee Jae-young, Shin Dong-hwan, writer: Lee Se-mi, video editing: Kim In-sun)