Korean Righteous Military Administration Office

The Korean Righteous Military Administration Office was an armed independence organization raised by former Korean soldiers, volunteer fighters and veterans of the righteous armies who had been fighting the Japanese since before the March 1st Movement of 1919. Its leaders took the name in October 1919 on the recommendation of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai and reported their organization to it under the presidency of Lee Gyu. Operating from the Jiandao and Manchurian borderlands across the Duman River, it kept a civil and military staff of departments and had about 900 men under arms in late 1919, with training camps and hunter detachments. It raided Japanese military police posts, police stations and government offices, and published newspapers and magazines to spread education and national spirit. In December 1920 it joined the Korean Independence Corps and the Korean Volunteer Army, which was later disarmed after the Free City Incident.