Donghak Peasant Revolution - Aftermath

Aftermath

The rebellion failed, but many grievances of the peasants would later be addressed through the Gabo Reform. The Korean Empire was established in 1897 as a result of the First Sino-Japanese War. Foreign influence would still be a major aspect, with Japan and Russia later competing over exclusive rights in Korea.

In the coming years Korea would fall increasingly under exclusive Japanese influence, and after the Russo-Japanese War, Russian influence would no longer be a factor in Korea. The Korean Empire would be established in 1897, the Korean Empire would in effect (de facto) become a Japanese autonomous protectorate and would later be annexed by Japan in 1910. It was due to this revolution that armies of both China and Japan arrived in Korea, the Japanese did not leave until 1945. It is likely that without this rebellion, Japan would not have had a raison d'etre to enter Korea militarily. As such, some see this rebellion as the first step to the loss of Korean national independence.

Although the revolution failed, it made a significant contribution to Korean modernization that resulted from the peasants' demands for democracy, the expulsion of foreign influence and an end to feudalism. The ideas of the movement lived on in the Cheondogyo religious movement.

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