March 1st Movement

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March 1st Movement
Official name	March 1st Movement Samil Movement
Also called	Man-se Demonstrations
Significance	Marks one of the first public displays of Korean resistance during the Japanese occupation of Korea
Observances	March 1, national holiday in South Korea since 1949
Date	March 1, 1919

The March 1st Movement, also known as the Sam-il (3-1) Movement (Korean: 3·1 운동), was a significant protest movement in early 1919 by Korean people that called for independence from Imperial Japan and a stop to the forced assimilation into Japanese culture. It is also sometimes referred to as the Man-se Demonstrations (Korean: 만세운동; Hanja: 萬歲運動; lit. Ten-thousand Year Movement). It is remembered as one of the earliest and largest protest movements for Korean independence, and remembered as a catalyst for future independence activities. Thirty-three Korean cultural and religious leaders issued a proclamation, supported by thousands of students and civilians in Seoul. There were over 1,000 demonstrations in many other cities. These were brutally suppressed, with Korean historian Park Eun-sik reporting about 7,500 killed and 16,000 wounded, and 46,000 arrested.

Korea eventually achieved independence decades later after the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II. Today, March 1st is celebrated as a national holiday in South Korea, but not in North Korea.^[1]