SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seo Kyung-deok, a publicist and professor at Sungshin Women’s University, has released a video about the life of Albert Wilder Taylor (1875-1948).
Albert Taylor was an American businessman and journalist responsible for telling the world about the March 1st Independence Movement and Korean efforts to gain independence from Japanese rule.
He was the first person to report on the Declaration of Independence in the Western press.
The declaration was written and signed by 33 national leaders and distributed nationwide before being read aloud in front of thousands of citizens in Seoul on March 1, 1919.
Albert Taylor (L) and his wife Mary Taylor
The statement set off a wave of anti-Japanese protests across the country through May in what would become a landmark event during Tokyo’s 1910-45 colonial occupation of Korea.
The four-minute video talks about Taylor’s life, including how he inadvertently received a copy of the Korean Declaration of Independence, sent it to the U.S. for the first report of the March 1st Independence Movement to the world, and covered the Jeamri Massacre perpetrated by the Japanese military.
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