Kim was born in Hongseong County, Chungcheong Province on December 16, 1889 as the second son of Kim Hyeong-gyo. He was part of a wealthy family of the Andong Kim lineage. Kim was described as a broad-minded and intelligent child. When he was 3 years old, his father died, and he grew up under strict education by his mother, Hansan Yi. In 1904, he married Oh Sook-geun. Kim Chwa-chin moved to Seoul in 1905 in order to attend an Army Military Academy, later establishing the Namyeon School in 1907, where modern academic disciplines were taught.
When Kim was 18, he released 50 families of slaves when he publicly burned the slave registry and provided each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea.
Kim also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong to spread the ideology of Korean national liberation. In 1909, he served as a director of the Hansung-Sik Company. He established a northwestern academic institution with An and Yi Kap, and established the Oh Sung-sung School as its affiliated educational institution to serve as vice president. He also helped establish a youth student association.
In 1911, he visited Jokdol Kim Jong-geun in Donui-dong, a fund-raising institution, to establish the Independence Military Academy in northern Gando. However, he ended up being sent to Seodaemun Prison for two years and six months, for his subversive activities. During his sentence, he encountered Kim Gu. After his release from prison in 1913, he wrote a poem, "If a man makes a mistake, it is difficult to tolerate, and if the governor tries to live, he must wait again." In 1916, Kim joined the Korea Liberation Corps, which was formed by Park Sang-jin and Chae Ki-joong, together with Nobalin and Shin Hyun-dae. In 1918, he fled to Manchuria to escape the Japanese rule of Korea, and there signed the Korean Declaration of Independence together with 39 other Korean representatives, a prelude to the March 1st Independence Movement.
He joined the Korea Justice Corps, which focused on Senol, took military responsibility, reorganized the definition group into the military department, and was recommended as the commander. In 1919, he, on the recommendation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, took up the position of general commander of the Northern Military Administration Office Army (Bungnogunjeongseo in Korean). His first action was to install a military center in the mountains of Wangqing County, where he himself became an educator on military leadership. Training under him was strict, and the tasks given to most of the troops under his command was focused on acquiring weapons. In September 1920, 298 people graduated from the First Military Academy.
When the Japanese military unit was sent to Manchuria in October to eliminate the Korean independence forces, it met with Japanese troops in Cheongsan-ri, while moving its independence forces to Mount Baekdu. On October 21, the Battle of Cheongsanri took place after the Battle of Godonghae, starting with Baegun-ri, Baegung, on October 26. In particular, the Northern Korean military regime led by General Kim Chwa-chin contributed greatly to the victory in Cheongsanri by winning a great victory in the Battle of Baegun Pyeongjoon, Gonjeongjeon, and Eorang Village. This victory, where Kim's forces caused around 1200 casualties to the 3000 Japanese soldiers, was a landmark in the battle for independence.
Later that year, he went with the Northern Korean army and arrived at the North Manju Milsan Mountain near Russia. About 10 groups of independence fighters united and took office as vice president of the Korean Liberation Army. When many people moved to northern Russia on a silver lining to support the independence of small ethnic groups, Kim crossed the red river.
But it had thought that he returned to Manchuria to reunite and wait for the scattered comrades, and in March 1925, he founded Sinminbu and became vice chairman of the military and commander of the army. In addition, a school was established as the first place to teach and train elite military officers. At that time, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea appointed him as a member of the Cabinet. Kim did not take office and instead concentrated only on leading the independence forces.
When many officials were captured by the Japanese government in 1927, the new administration was reorganized to lead the new administration as chairman of the Central Committee of the Commission.
In 1928, the Korea Independence Party was formed, and in 1929, when the Korean General Association was established as the successor of the new people, Chwa-chin was designated as the President. During this process, conflicts between the nationalist and communist independence activists intensified. On January 24, 1930, Kim Jwa-jin was assassinated by Park Sang-sil, an agent of the Japanese colonial government. Just before he died, Kim Jwa-jin said, “What to do… I have to die at this time with so much work to do. How regrettable...” Three years after his death, his wife, Oh Sook-geun, recovered his remains and buried them in Hongseong, his hometown.
After the assassination of Kim Chwa-chin, the anarchist movement in Manchukuo and Korea became subject to massive repression. Japan sent armies to attack Shinmin from the south, while pro-Kuomintang forces attacked from the north. By the summer of 1931, Shinmin's most prominent anarchists were dead, and the war on two fronts was becoming untenable. The anarchists went underground and anarchist Shinmin was no more.
As a leader of the Korean independence movement, Kim is remembered in both North and South Korea. In 1991, the town of Hongseong restored his birthplace. A festival is now held in his honor every October.
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Has anyone seen that new movie "Leave the World Behind"? I don't really know anything about it other than its content. ApparentlyI might make a longer post about this interpretation, assuming I have not pulled something incredibly bizarre out of this. I got the vibe this isn't really what they intended but I could also somehow taste the guilt of the characters, like they know somewhere deep down that America is only getting back what it has done to others for so long. I could go on, like about one of the characters talking about one their rich clients who mentioned privately that they were going to a meeting with "the cabal that runs the world" or about how clueless and helpless the characters are and how this doesn't just represent a personal failing of the characters but how Americans just don't understand how the world works on a fundamental level so they tend toward baseless conspiracism and helplessness or the racism between the characters, or the {internet,irony)-poisoned-coded teenager secretly taking pictures of another character to masturbate to later, etc etc. There is definitely a reactionary reading of this film and my mom mentioned that her coworkers were trying to read into "secret messages" the writers had put into the film about the future. The use of the word "cabal" did not help. What did everyone else think of this film?
I watched it recently and had the exact opposite reaction (i thought that it was an American exceptionalist, neoliberal paranoia-jerkoff about The Bad Guys creating a vague coalition to rain unjust hellfire on the Unfortunately Polarized but Basically, Fundamentally Good America). posted here recently about it and honestly i havent hated anything this much in a while lmao. your reading is interesting though, i guess i went in to it too biased by the knowledge that the Obamas were producers and Sam Esmail is a proud Clinton lib who just channels a radlib aesthetic into his art (i.e. Mr Robot) to consider a reading like yours.
Yeahh, I can see how you could hate it lol. I just started getting this vibe a few minutes into this film that I needed to read into it more deeply and not take what was happening literally. Maybe I'm just projecting my unlimited-destruction😁-on-the-first-world feelings onto it. There are moments like when "G. H." started going on about how the evil bad guy America-haters want to turn us against ourselves so we could destroy each other before "they" come in and occupy the country. Which is what a clueless American would say about the situation but..... and.... the more I type this out I am realizing what the writers and the Obamas wanted us to take from this film lol. But then it's difficult to reconcile that with the grillpilled West-Wing-and-Friends-watching lib child, like it is some kind of critique or examination of the American psyche. But maybe it doesn't go any deeper than "phone bad". Mixed messaging or maybe I'm just confusing myself lol.
This was pretty much my take too. The biggest social critique was of “us/everyone” who are responsible for all the horrors of the world, simply because we’re too selfish or whatever. Delivered by the misanthropic white lady in a way that distributes blame perfectly evenly among the citizenry.
Which is not on its own the worst thing. But there was also a bit where g.h is talking about how no one is really in control, and another bit about the sort of strategy of the invaders that seemed pretty… ungrounded in political reality I guess? Taken together it’s a disappointingly poor account of how power works, how we got where we are, and who’s responsible for that. Just a complete diffusion of causality that lets the ruling class entirely off the hook.
I knew I wasn’t watching Eisenstein going into it, and wasn’t expecting any serious class critique, but I felt like there was enough that was good about its depiction of the attack itself that it was a bummer it was so weak on the sociopolitical side of things.
And the end really does sort of drive home that point that it’s all on us, the slop-hungry viewers. In a way it is I guess, but it leaves you with the question - what are we to do differently? And the implied answer is be nicer to your neighbors, vote harder, consume less, etc. which is really fucking lame.
As we all know, the real answer is to liquidate the ruling class and dismantle the machinery of capitalist imperialism that breeds such conflict. I think that’s my main gripe with the movie. It asks a question it doesn’t have the slightest idea how to answer in a serious way.
I thought it was good but yeah I wouldn't go out of my way either. Sorry, I would go into more detail but I'm just feeling drained today :(