제국주의 일본 육군사관학교 출신 독립운동가 李種赫의 생애와 활동 : 굴종, 협력, 저항의 인생사

Abstract

When the Korean Empire Military Academy, which had remained clear since the disbandment of the army, was closed, Lee Jong-hyuk entered the Japanese Military Academy in accordance with imperial Japan’s policy and walked the path of a soldier. Although the country collapsed in August 1910, he completed the Japanese military service safely as a ruinous slave. After being commissioned as a lieutenant in 1915, he served as a loyal soldier of the imperial Japanese army. However, when he was dispatched to Russia in 1918, he faced the situation of executing his own fellow countrymen and anti-Japanese fighters. He burned his will to participate in the Independence Army while watching the March 1 Independence Movement in 1919. After defecting to Manchuria, he met Lee Chung-cheon, a senior member of his military school, and was arrested by the Japanese consulate police while serving as the chairman of the military committee of the Ministry of Truth and Reconciliation, and served a five-year prison term. In prison, Lee Jong-hyuk received countless conciliatory gestures from imperial Japan, but kept his pride as an independence activist. Lee Jong-hyuk, who came out of prison, was exhausted, but his spirit and passion for the independence movement were passed on to future generations. This is why the life of Lee Jong-hyuk, a soldier who kept his national identity in the midst of an individual’s leadership and national security during a chaotic period, should be recalled and remembered rather than the life of his colleagues and colleagues at the Japanese Military Academy, who walked the path of pro-Japanese relations.