Colonial Period
 History of Korea
The Colonial Education System
Higher education in the colonial system was limited and reserved for
the Japanese. However, a small number of Koreans were allowed to study
abroad in Japan. These few Koreans undoubtedly were the best and brightest
students around. Once in Japan, they were exposed to the wide variety of
radical intellectual ideas at the time. Ironically, it was because of this
exposure to political ideas in Japan that these Koreans became the leaders
of opposition movements, like the Korean Youth Independence Corps which
drafted the Tokyo Declaration of Independence in 1919.
Colonial Period
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