This article is to research toe educational ideal and the establishing process of
Gan-do Koreans\' national educational institute during Japanese invasion period and
to illuminate Koreans\' potential energy. The first modern private school is
Dongkwang School in Hoonchoon-hyun, Gan-do, founded in 1904. After this school
the movement of establishing modern private schools was spread out vividly.
After the signing of the eul-sa[을사] treaty, lots of schools were founded by many
Korean patriots, working as centers to carry out anti-Japanese education.
The educational ideal of the national educational institutes lie in the national
mentality to elevate the patriotic independent thoughts and the modern mind. The
Japanese educational policy against Korean education was to hinder the Korean
national education by way of assimilation with Japan and oppression with the
intention of striking anti-Japanese struggle centers. While Chinese educational
policy was to oppress Koreans in Manchuria as Koreans were thought to be
forerunners of Japanese invasion, they sometimes had sympathy for Koreans and
tried to assimilate Koreans in order to rule over them.
Nevertheless the Korean immigrants in Manchuria kept their national education,
not yielding under Japanese and Chinese pressure, instilling patriotism into
Koreans\' hearts, and developing into anti-Japanese movement for Korean
independence.