International Support for the March 1st Movement

Okay, so I'm working on research into my first timeline, and an interesting POD I've found is this.

During the colonial era in Korea, one of the major events there was the March 1st Movement (삼일운동), and while Japan ultimately crushed the movement at the time, it did lead to a number of concessions to the Korean people. One thing to note is that no international support of any significance was received. Suppose that, as the Independence declaration was heavily influenced by the Wilson's 14 points, that Wilson came out in support of the movement. Not necessarily supporting immediate independence for Korea, but something more than the message that was sent to the consulate in Keijo (Seoul's name at the time), forbidding any support at all. Perhaps offering to help mediate or something like that.

Thoughts?
 
The allies only used selfdetermination as a facade to gain support from minorites in the central powers(polish,czechs,arabs,jews) Why bother alienating japan even earlier by supporting a revolt within korea. That would just turn the Japanese against the brits even earlier.

Example- Britian did not give self determination to the indian subcontinent, they (the indians) were not free to become an independent nation.

The allies up to the outbreak of war did not care about polish and czech minorities in austria and germany. They only courted them so as to create dissent within their enemies, inorder to keep the central powers from fully focusing on the fronts.

not to discourage you, but the allies were quite hypocritical when it came to freedom/self determination. But it would have been nice for the korean people to have been given more opportunities to regain there freedom. Good luck with your timeline, it sounds qiute interesting.
 
The allies only used selfdetermination as a facade to gain support from minorites in the central powers(polish,czechs,arabs,jews) Why bother alienating japan even earlier by supporting a revolt within korea. That would just turn the Japanese against the brits even earlier.

Example- Britian did not give self determination to the indian subcontinent, they (the indians) were not free to become an independent nation.

The allies up to the outbreak of war did not care about polish and czech minorities in austria and germany. They only courted them so as to create dissent within their enemies, inorder to keep the central powers from fully focusing on the fronts.

Okay. As you can prob. tell I'm a bit new to this thing. The point of departure prob was not the goal of this, but more the result. Say, what would be required for a more successful March 1st uprising? Not saying successful as in completely kicking Japan out (that seems a little ASB to me), but again, not just getting put back into place.
 
I dont mean to be too discouraging but this would be hard to accomplish.
But it is possible.

Now if wilson had pressed hard enough and maybe with italy and a few other nations joining, they could pressure japan into creating a korean puppet state under japanese watch or pressure japan to have a referendum in korea to allow the people to vote on their future.
 
Interesting.

One other idea I looked into was actually the choice of location for the signing and reading of the Declaration of Independence that day. In reality, the declaration was signed at a restaurant (to reduce chances of a riot or other disturbances before the actual reading at 2PM), then read at a park in downtown Seoul (near Insa-dong), but what if perhaps you move the location to somewhere more symbolic, say in front of Gwanghwamun (the Governor General building wasn't built in the palace until the 1920s), or somewhere far more public.

And I'm messing with location because I am currently living in Seoul, so I've taken the time to acquaint myself with my hometown. :)

EDIT: Oh, also, do you know any good online sources for information about this period? English or Korean is fine :)
 
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