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Margaret Chun, daughter of the late independence fighter Chun Myung-woon, poses in front of a photograph of her father, left, and Chang In-hwan, Feb. 23, who attempted to assassinate pro-Japan lobbyist and former diplomat Durham Stevens, at the Korea National Association Memorial Foundation in Los Angeles, Calif. / Korea Times photo by Park Jin-hai

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_Stevens
Durham White Stevens

 

Stevens returned to the United States in March 1908 to visit his family in Washington, D.C., and vacation with his sisters at a cottage they owned in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[18] Upon his arrival, he gave an interview with a San Francisco newspaper in which he stated that the common people of Korea were benefiting from the increasing Japanese presence and protection in their country, and that, in the state that Korea was in, Korea was not fit to be a liberated country. These statements provoked the ire of two local associations of Koreans, the Daedong Bogukhoe and the Independence Club, who held a joint meeting in which they agreed that something had to be done about Stevens.[19] On March 22, 1908, four Korean men chosen by the associations accosted Stevens at the Fairmont Hotel, where he was staying. Their leader, a man by the name of Earl Lee who was described as fluent in English, asked him if he had indeed made the statements attributed to him in the newspaper, and whether "Japanese were not killing off the Koreans". He answered yes to the first question and no to the second, then proceeded to tell Lee that he had "probably been too long away from his country to know the exact condition of the Government."[18] Upon this, the four men began to strike Stevens with chairs, knocking him down and causing him to strike his head against the marble flooring; Stevens backed up against the wall until help arrived. After the assault, Lee was quoted as saying, "We are all very sorry that we did not do more to him."[18]

 

https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/assassination-of-durham-white-stevens-by-korean-activists/article_921a0a36-b2e9-11ed-8d8e-f30832844f9e.html

 

On his tour, Stevens justified Japan’s actions by arguing that it was bringing progress to a backward and corrupt land, that most Koreans welcomed the Japanese intervention, and that if Japan had not intervened, others would. “Korea is a natural bulwark of Japan,” Stevens told his American audience. “Its state of complete isolation ... invited aggression and possible conquest.”

Stevens gave interviews to the San Francisco newspapers defending the Japanese takeover of Korea. The Call newspaper reported that “Stevens denies that the Japanese are exploiting Korea for Japanese profit or that the revenues of the land are being used in maintaining an arm of Japanese office holders.”

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