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The Oriental Development Company, established by the Empire of Japan in 1908 is a national enterprise As a result, it was frequently granted special rights and privileges, including trade monopolies and exemptions. Th



Foundation
After Independence Club (독립협회, 獨立協會) was dissolved on December 25 1898 as Emperor Gojong officially announced to prohibit congresses held by people, the Empire of Japan made a treaty with the Korean Empire called Eulsa Treaty which made the Korean Empire become a protectorate of the Empire of Japan of Japan. The treaty laid the foundation for the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1907 in and subsequent annexation of Korea in 1910. Even though Emperor Sunjong, who is a son of Emperor Gojong, sent a Hague Secret Emissary Affair to expose the unfairness of the treaty in the Hague Convention of 1907, due to the Great Powers, they were ignored.

History
From the initiation by Ahn Changho in Los Angeles, California, the people who used to be the leaders of Independence Club decided to organize Korean New People's Association (대한신민회) from Pyeongyang and Seoul in the late 1906. After the establishment, they have established branches national-wide, and started to support education, industrialization, and military actions for the independence. However, in 1911, the New People's Association was dissolved as the Imperial Japan fabricated the Case of the One Hundred Five and arrested the main members of the New people's Association. Even though they were dismissed, their ideology and main actions became inherited by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea later.

Ideology
The main politic ideology of the New People's Association was based on Republicanism, which is far different from Constitutional Monarchy which Independence Club had believed. Also, to strengthen the national power, they asserted that citizens should be reformed to become new people(신민, 新民) first. In other words, they believed people should be 'prepared' first for the apportunity for the independence of Korea.

Aftermath



 * Shin Chaeho (신채호, 申采浩)
 * Ahn Changho (안창호, 安昌浩)
 * Yun Chiho (윤치호, 尹致昊)
 * Park Eunsik (박은식, 朴殷植)
 * Yi Dongnyeong (이동녕, 李東寧)
 * Yang Gitak (양기탁, 梁起鐸)
 * Jang Jiyeon (장지연, 張志淵)
 * Yi Donghwi (이동휘, 李東煇)