‘100th march First of the Korean Independence Movement’

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‘100th march First of the Korean Independence Movement’
International Invitation Exhibition

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You are cordially invited to '2019, 100th March First’ International Invitation Exhibition. You are selected as 50 artists of international exhibition of the Dokdo(2017) and exhibition of DMZ(2018).

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Host/Organizer: International Art & Design Association (IADA)

About 3.1.movement Information :
https://www.together100.go.kr/eng/lay2/S79T82C88/contents.do

I use this text from the site:

Harsh Repression Following the March 1st Independence Movement

The March 1st Independence Movement, which began on March 1 and lasted for more than two months, spread from urban areas to rural areas, and even outside the country. According to the Hanguk dongnip undong jihyeolsa (The Bloody History of the Korean Independence Movement) written by Park Eun-sik, more than two million Koreans, accounting for around ten percent of the entire population, took part in the movement. Among these, about 7,500 people were killed and 16,000 were injured, and more than 46,000 people were arrested by the Japanese police, while 49 church buildings and 715 private houses were burned by the Japanese authorities in reprisal. Between March and December of 1919, 19,054 of the people who had been arrested were indicted and 7,819 were convicted in court hearings.

A number of repressive laws were enacted by the Japanese colonists in Korea up until 1919. For instance, in 1907 the Japanese Residency-General’s Office in Korea enacted the Security Act to impose restrictions on the freedom of assembly and association and to prohibit the posting of printed materials and pictures in public, and even to restrict people’s behavior. The Act on Paper Used for Newspapers and the Publication Act were enacted in 1919 and 1909, respectively, to suppress the Daehan maeil sinbo (The Korea Daily News) and Hwangseong sinmun (Capital Gazette) among others and to confiscate books associated with Korean patriotism. In 1912, the Governor-General of Korea enacted the then version of today’s Minor Offenses Act in a bid to crack down on even the daily life of the Korean people.

In 1912, the Governor-General of Korea promulgated the Ordinance on Penal Matters in Korea, which was designed to assist the application of the Criminal Act and other relevant acts of Japan in Korea. Following the March 1st Independence Movement, the colonists hurriedly enacted the Decree on the Punishment of Political Crimes (Governor-General’s Regulation No. 7) in order to punish Koreans who had taken part in the street demonstrations. Those convicted for violation of the Security Act after taking part in independence movement accounted for 71.7% of all those convicted, while those convicted for sedition under the Criminal Act accounted for 21.8%; and those convicted for violation of the Publication Act and the Governor-General’s Regulation No. 7 accounted for 3.5% and 2.1% respectively. Most of those who planned the March 1st Independence Movement as national leaders were sentenced to three years in prison for violations of the Security Act, the Publication Act, and the sedition clause of the Criminal Act. Meanwhile, those who used violence in the street demonstrations, such as setting fire to local government buildings or police boxes or injuring or killing (military) police officers received harsher sentences: Forty-three people were given sentences of 5-10 years in prison, twenty-one were sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, and five were given life sentences.

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My Doctoral Program (post-degree DLA) about The structure as a series operation so this work based on that idea. I usually think and work with constructive elements – based on basic graphic structures. Now I started out from the core elements of modular grids and combined it with the Korean national color-chord plus an optical “aftermath”. The small size text I used was obtained from the specified source web site. For me there is no simple image, just a surface with meanings... Meaning is the work of the will.