The Organization of the Korean Tongak Growing up - Training - The Armed Uprising (1860-1895)

Abstract

 The Tongak represented an important belief in the life of the Korean people because it was the only one born from the womb of Korean suffering, unlike other beliefs that existed in Korea, all of which came from abroad, and that by turning it into an organization that defends the oppression of the poor added another feature to it that enabled it to touch the feelings of the Koreans and lead them towards aspiration To a better future.

  The Korean people suffered during the rule of King Koh Jeong from the late nineteenth century from great persecutions as a result of the taxes imposed on them. The Korean suffering was mixed with the spread of nationalism in them as a result of the invasion of their country by the Japanese invaders, which was used by the founder of the Tongak to attract the masses to his belief, and the chain of command With which the Tongak organized itself, it made it an organization that did not end with the death of its leader, and this is what happened after the killing of the first founder, so the leadership transferred to his deputy, and then each province became the leader of the organization.

  The peasant community was ready to rise up against the authorities, and indeed it made several attempts, but they failed, which was what the Tongak exploited and began to organize uprisings in which they participated even from outside the organization, and the Tongak succeeded in leading the first armed uprising in the history of Korea in 1894, and it was a cause of the Sino-Japanese war