Historical Significance
A Short History of the Gwangju Student
Independence Movement
| Early 1920s | Anti-Japanese Student Movement(like a Strike of Students) Being Spread to the Whole Country(404 Times) |
| November 3, 1926 | Students of Gwangju High Student Organizing Seongjin-hoe (a Secret Society of Students Anti-Japanese) |
| November 1928 | Gwangju Girl Students Organizing 'a Society of Girls' as a Secret Society |
| June 1929 | A Secret Society of Student Organizing the Central Department of a Society of Reading Books |
| October 30, 1929 | The Collision between Korean and Japanese Students Occurring in the Commuting Train from Gwangju to Naju |
| November 3, 1929 | The Outbreak of the Gwangju Student Independence Movement (54,000 Students in the whole country participating in the movement, 1,462 students being under restraint, 2,912 students being withdrawn from the school or suspended from the school for an indefinite period) |
| February 12, 1930 | Those Who Are Related with Gwangju Student Demonstrations Being Brought to the Trial at the Gwangju District Court |
| June 13, 1931 | Those Who Are Related with Gwangju Student Demonstrations Being Judged at the Daegu Court of Review |
| January 1942 | Arrested by detected the Moodeung-hoe party of Gwangju Seo Middle
School. (The First Moodeung-hoe Event) |
| May 20, 1943 | A Strike of Gwangju Seo Middle School Students, The Second Moodeung-hoe Event(The Second Gwangju Student Independence Movement) * Moodeung-hoe: a society of students |
| October 20, 1953 | Establishing 'Student's Day (November 03)' |
| March 1, 1957 | Organizing a Branch of the Gwangju Student Independence Movement |
| November 3, 1959 | Being Reproduced as "The Stars Without Name" Which is a Documentary Film of the Gwangju Student Independence Movement |
| March 30, 1973 | Abolition of 'Student's Day' by the Merger and Abolition of All Kinds of Memorial Days |
| September 19, 1984 | 'Student's Day' Being Revived as a Legal Memorial Day |
| September 6, 2006 | Renaming as "Memorial Day of the Student Independence Movement" |
Chronological Chart of the Gwangju Student
Independence Movement
