Speach on Independence Day 2021
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The March First Independence Movement was a campaign all Koreans joined to regain their lives from the exploitation of colonial rule. The March First Independence Movement made it possible for us to gain momentum to overcome colonization by Japan and initiate a national leap forward. I pay profound respect to our proud forebears who turned the history of the Republic of Korea around while weathering adversities.
In 1918, one year before the March First Independence Movement occurred, a new infectious disease called the Spanish Flu descended upon a Korean nation oppressed by Imperial Japan’s military colonial rule and exploitation. Approximately 7.55 million people, over 40 percent of the total population at the time, came down with the disease and, among them, more than 140,000 lost their lives. Cholera also meant death. Its mortality rate reached as high as 65 percent, and some 13,500 lives were lost in 1920 alone.
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