Korean Volunteer Corps

It operated under the leadership of General Kim Won-bong as the Korean National Revolutionary Party's military organization.

Accordingly, Park Geon-woong argued that partial, secret, and intermittent activities should be changed to comprehensive, open, and continuous.

In other words, the Korean people should independently lead the revolution and the Kuomintang government should regard this as a comprehensive union of national units.

Just as the communists formed the Eighth Route Army after the national-communist cooperation, the Korean people should also organize an independent unit.

Kazuo Aoyama's draft stated that an independent Korean unit of about 100 people would be created and organized by the Central Executive Committee of the 'Japan, Korea, Taiwan Anti-Fascist Alliance'.

[3] The highest organization was the leadership committee, which consisted of Lee Chun-am, Kim Seong-suk, Choi Chang-ik, Yoo Ja-myeong, and two members of the political department.

1, Dongling Street, Shudong Gate, Guilin, Guangxi Province, but later moved to Aguanbo, Chongqing City.

[4] The Joseon Volunteer Corps planned to send many party members to Manchuria, rally their comrades at Mirsan-hyeon (密山縣) as their headquarters, and disrupt the rear of the Japanese Army.

China attempted to make up for its military inferiority through moral superiority, and the Joseon Volunteer Corps was established with the mission of propaganda against the Japanese army and against the Chinese.

Although the Joseon Volunteer Corps took the form of equal cooperation between Korea and China in the larger scheme of things, it was actually under the influence of figures from the Chiang Kai-shek faction of the Kuomintang Party.

In February 1939, about 7,000 Korean troops rebelled near Gwangju and killed Japanese officers, and these conscripts joined the volunteer corps.

[5] The purpose of publishing Joseon Volunteer Corps News was to provide a forum for discussion, exchange of experiences, and mutual criticism to develop anti-Japanese activities through the Korea-China alliance.

Second, many articles by Chinese people encouraging and advising the activities of the Joseon Volunteer Corps were published.

[5] The method of struggle revealed in Joseon Volunteer Corps Newspaper had a difference in line between the early and late Guilin period.

[3] The Korean Liberation Army was founded by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in September 1940, some people participated and some left, reducing the number to 81 in May 1941.

Ultimately, at the 28th Cabinet Meeting of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in April 1942, it was decided to incorporate it into the Liberation Army.

[4] When Kim Won-bong, who had lost overall control of the volunteer corps, joined the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in July 1942, part of the volunteer corps was incorporated into the 1st Zone of the Liberation Army, and Kim Won-bong was inaugurated as the head of the military affairs department.

Kim Won-bong , General of the Korean Volunteers Corps
Video of Korean Volunteer Corps produced in 1938 at Wuhan , China.