In the late 19th century, Manhae, a 16-year-old teenager, joins the Donghak Peasant Movement and organizes activities to raise 1,000 nyang for the cause. While making a living through his wife's needlework business, Manhae, now a middle-aged man, continues to resist Japanese colonial rule by writing and taking an active part in movements to oppose the forced attribution of Japanese names to Korean people and the forced mobilization of Koreans to fight in the war. He eventuall...
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In the late 19th century, Manhae, a 16-year-old teenager, joins the Donghak Peasant Movement and organizes activities to raise 1,000 nyang for the cause. While making a living through his wife's needlework business, Manhae, now a middle-aged man, continues to resist Japanese colonial rule by writing and taking an active part in movements to oppose the forced attribution of Japanese names to Korean people and the forced mobilization of Koreans to fight in the war. He eventually in 1944, just before the Liberation.
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