MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labory History January 20, 1930: Korean anarchist military leader Kim Chwa-chin was assassinated. When he was 18, he publicly burned the Korean slave registry, releasing 50 families of slaves and providing each family with enough land to live on. This was the first emancipation of slaves in modern Korea. He also organized branches of the Korea Association and the Association for the Performing Arts in Hongseong as ways to help organize for Korean national liberation. He was imprisoned in 1911 for subversive activities. He later fled to Manchuria to escape Japanese occupation, but then fought against the Japanese when they invaded Manchuria. After his assassination, the Korean anarchist movement was heavily repressed by the Japanese army, in the south, and by pro-Kuomintang forces, in the north. By 1931, most of its leaders were dead.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/korea" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>korea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abolition</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/occupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>occupation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manchuria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>manchuria</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/liberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>liberation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KimChwachin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>KimChwachin</span></a></p>