Being temporarily free from their restrictions, thousands of people comprising men and women of all ages gathered in Pagoda Park for a single purpose "to express their earnest desire for independence. At two in the afternoon, a young Protestant man mounted on a podium in the middle of the park and read aloud the Declaration of Independence. ... Lastly, the American Protestant missionaries intransigently maintained their apolitical stance; they refused to condone any political movements within the Church and thus discouraged the Korean-Protestant people from participating in them (Duk-Ju L...

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