[2] Righteous armies emerged in the aftermath of the assassination of Empress Myeongseong and an ordinance prohibiting sangtu [ko].
Due to the unequal and compulsory nature of the treaty, many people, including Shin Dol-seok, struggled against the Japanese army.
In the Korea of that time, it was not easy for a commoner to lead an army because of the strong adherence to the status system.
However, the Japanese Imperial forces started wiping out every Koreans that they found in independence fighter's hideouts, regardless of status, and Dol-seok's army was the ones that were hit particularly hard.
After the events that have been contributing in slowly driving out the Japanese, Dol-seok was murdered by his cousin in 1908, who was blinded by the enormous bounty on his head.