Seoul, South Korea
In the past few days, the second wave of garrisons occurred in Itaewondong (the cave is equivalent to a street) in Seoul, South Korea
set up of the East Province
The second wave of garrisons: Japan's Kamakura Shogunate Army.
in the late Ming Dynasty Wanli period, in the island country ended the chaotic times of the Warring States Period in Japan with its own strength and realized the unity of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to be arrogant and thought that he won the "village chief melee" , he began to plan his mainland expansion concept. He planned to occupy the Goryeo Peninsula first, then invade China with Goryeo as a base, and even seriously formulated a plan to move the island country to Beijing. The final chapter of his conception was to occupy India with China as a base and achieve mainland expansion.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
In 1592, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took advantage of the opportunity when the party struggles within the Goryeo Li's dynasty caused chaos in the government and dispatched two subordinate generals - Xiaoxi Governor and Kato Kiyoshi each led the army to attack the Goryeo dynasty on both sides, and quickly occupied Seoul, Kaesong and Pyongyang in just a few months, approaching the Chinese border. This is the war of Japanese invasion of Goryeo in Chinese history, known as " Ionchen Japanese riots " . In this war, Kiyomasa Kato's army was stationed in the place where the Mongolian army once opened up, which is today's Itaewon area.
The third wave of garrisons: Ming army.
Faced with the step-by-step pressing and constant provocation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi , the Goryeo Dynasty, as a vassal state, had to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, the sect leader country. Then, the Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun sent the then Liaodong general Li Rusong to lead more than 40,000 troops across Yalu River and enter Goryeo to fight against the Japanese army. Li Rusong was well versed in military tactics and understood that the Japanese army was most worried about the supply of reserved food and grass when fighting across the sea, so he focused his attacks at the beginning on the Japanese army's grain and grass camp in Longshan (near Today's Itaewon). In the end, Li Rusong successfully sent a team to raid and burned hundreds of thousands of dans of the Japanese army. At the same time, he joined forces with the Goryeo Navy Li Sun-sen to repel Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invading army in one fell swoop.
A corner of Dingling, Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty
Speaking of Lee Sun-sen, we have to mention a popular movie " Mingliang Naval Battle " , a few years ago, South Korea shot in this naval battle. To be honest, the movie was really good-looking and powerful. If you don’t know, you might have fought a world-class naval battle in . However, the actual situation is embarrassing. In fact, Lee Sun-sen sent by Goryeo at that time only had 12 boardhouse boats (actually, it was an old wooden boat with no sails and masts, and could only rely on manual paddles). The army had 120 people (yes, it was 120 people). The Japanese leader who was shot and killed brought 600 people. And the ending was that although Lee Sun-sen won, he could not continue to defend the Mingliang Strait after the end of the battle, so he could only retreat again and again, and the streak he was fighting for was still occupied by the Japanese.
To put it bluntly, the so-called Mingliang naval battle seems to be very powerful, but in fact, it is Ming Two village chiefs affiliated to the imperial court fought each other during the fight, and then there was no more. Li Rusong, who led 40,000 troops into North Korea, helped to quell the Japanese riots, took over the military camp left by the Japanese army in Itaewon, and briefly repaired it there, and then returned to China.
The fourth wave of garrisons: Qing dynasty Han army
In 1882, a civil protest broke out in Seoul at that time known as the " Renwu Incident ". The Japanese Embassy located in Seoul was burned and some Japanese were slaughtered. To this end, the Qing Dynasty, the sect leader at that time, took the initiative to intervene. At the same time, Japan tried to use this as an excuse to protect Japan's interests and also tried to force troops into the peninsula area. However, the Qing Dynasty at that time completely saw through the Japanese's plan and sent the Qing army camp stationed in Dengzhou, Shandong to the North Korea. Under the joint leadership of Wu Changqing and Yuan Shikai , the incident was finally calmed before the Japanese.The army led by Wu Changqing and Yuan Shikai at that time was also stationed in the current Itaewon.
It is worth mentioning that Yuan Shikai began to gradually show his talents during this battle in the North Korea and his subsequent assisted governance process, and received attention from the court. After quelling the peninsula incident, Yuan Shikai led his army back to his country, and for his outstanding performance, he even received personal reception from Emperor Guangxu. It was precisely with this beginning that Yuan Shikai returned to China and was sent by the court to train troops by the small station in Tianjin for training. Then, Yuan Shikai became the later Beiyang Army with the continued training of small stations. His power gradually grew and eventually became the most influential figure in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
The fifth wave of garrison: Japanese Meiji Army.
After that, as the decadent Qing Dynasty court gradually declined, its status as the sect leader of the peninsula was gradually shaken. Japan has also gradually expanded its military power on the peninsula. It was not until 1904 that Japan directly sent troops to occupy Seoul and forced the signing of the Japan-South Korea Protocol, gradually turning the peninsula into Japan's sphere of influence. It was at this time that Japan began to build and expand military facilities on a large scale around Itaewon, not only built large-scale military camps around it, but also built a series of military supporting facilities such as the Governor's Office, the Governor's Office in North Korea, and the Division Command.
and these also became the logistics base for Japan to invade northeast China after the September 18th Incident and then invade China's logistics base until the end of World War II , and Japan's military presence on the peninsula was completely removed.
The sixth wave of garrison: US troops stationed in South Korea.
After the end of World War II, although Japan's military forces were completely eliminated from the peninsula, the United States' military influence followed closely. The location it chose was the barracks and facilities around Itaewon left by the Japanese, which was exactly what I said before: , the front fence of the cat is stayed in the cat, and the back fence of the dog is left behind.
Especially after the outbreak of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the United States increased its military investment in the peninsula area and built more than 80 military bases in South Korea in succession. The headquarters of the US military stationed in South Korea chose the Yongsan base next to Itaewon, the former site of Japan, which was once Japan. Until the time of the United States understands the king, the United States and South Korea had friction over the cost of the garrison. The U.S. military bases in South Korea began to shrink one after another, merged the 80 military bases into 12, and the Yongsan base near Itaewon was also included in the closure list.
However, over the long history of hundreds of years, the frequent foreign garrison history of Itaewon has completely shaped its basic form, and even the origin of its name has been deeply engraved in the genes of mixed fish and dragons, which is indelible.
2. The origin of the name "Itaewon"
It is generally believed that the origin of the name "Itaewon" is likely from an etymological perspective from a mixed-race child born locally and mixed with different countries in blood. These groups, called "different others" by Koreans (이타인), gather in various places around Itaewon.
For example, there were records showing that during the Japanese invasion of the Ironcho Japanese invasion from 1592 to 1598, Japanese ronin and invading troops arrived here, and large-scale rape of monks in the surrounding monastery. Some of the nuns who were abused and conceived by brutally abused gave birth to babies here and were despised by others. Therefore, this place was rejected by the locals and denounced it as ", the heterodexual urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urinary urin
In fact, similar renames are more common in China, especially in Beijing, and can even be said to be everywhere. Like the famous Zhongguancun in Beijing, it was originally the "Zhongguan Tomb" that buried eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty. It was renamed Zhongguancun due to taboos. Later, it was renamed Zhongguancun. For example, the current Gaoyibo Hutong was also transformed through the homonym of its original name Gouweiba Hutong.
Zhongguancun Street
Of course, careful readers may doubt that this is the pronunciation of Chinese. Can it make sense in Korean ? In fact, before the emergence of " Xunmin Zhengyin " in the 15th century, the peninsula had only language but no text of its own, and it was widely written in Chinese. Therefore, there were a large number of characters with the same pronunciation as the Chinese language but different characters.
If we say that during the Iron-chen Japanese turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty, the chaos in the Itaewon area was only temporary and forced. After the end of World War II, especially during the , Park Chung-hee period, the Fengyue industry was directly legalized, and its popularity even exceeded the industry's first-mover advantage of neighboring Japan in this field at that time.
. These women who use their bodies to earn US military foreign exchange are not only called "foreign princess" , but also regarded as "patriots". The foreign exchange they earned has even become the "fifth supply" in the eyes of Koreans.
In fact, the huge shadows that exist behind the highly developed entertainment industry in South Korea are now: huge dark stories such as Zhang Ziyan and Li Shengli are actually the continuation of these policies at that time, but the power of manipulation has gradually moved to the hands of South Korean chaebols.
At that time, the area around the U.S. military station was the most prosperous area, and Itaewon was located next to the U.S. military headquarters in South Korea, thus becoming the most typical representative of South Korea. Therefore, it can almost be said that in terms of the romance and moonlight, the Itaewon was once comparable to the eight great hutongs in old Beijing, but to the extent of the mixed nature, the Itaewon was far more chaotic, more unbearable, and more rejected and despised by the locals. The eight major hutongs have become history. And now Itaewon is hard to describe.
Of course, there are other statements about the origin of the name of Itaewon. For example, in the Goryeo Lee Dynasty, because the royal family surnamed Li, this place was called "Li Taiyuan". During the Goryeo Hyozong period, many pear trees were planted nearby, so they gradually became called "Itaewon". However, such statements always make people feel that they were deliberately fabricated to cover up the past that was unbearable, and their credibility was low.
In today's Seoul, South Korea, with the closure of the US military's Yongsan base, the continued COVID-19 pandemic, and the stampede accident that caused major casualties, what will happen to Itaewon in the future, and will it become increasingly declining? Perhaps only time can give the correct answer.
