Positive and Negative Impacts of Japanese Colonization in Korea (Coursework Sample)

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Colonization of Korea
From the article on Brief history of Korea, one may raise these questions;
Question 1.Discuss the positive and negative impacts of Japanese colonization in Korea.
This question’s relevance to this reading is to help the reader identify how the colonization of Korea by Japan developed and suppressed the Koreans.
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For the 35 years that Japan ruled Korea throughout the three periods of military, cultural policy and assimilation, the Koreans faced a lot of challenges and some benefits also emerged from same. During the Dark Age brutal killings were rampant. These killings reduced the demography of Koreans. The culture, of the Koreans was also deprived by the Japanese colonization. The curriculum in Korean schools was changed and Japanese curriculum was introduced. Christianity was not left behind and shrines were abolished by the Japan rulers and Shinto was introduced.
Women were kidnapped and forced to serve in the comfort corps. This was brutally done and others turned to rape rather than usual prostitution jobs. Since this was a forced activity some women ended up to suicide which kept on reducing the population of the Koreans. The Koreans were also forced to work in the Japanese industries