The Korean Volunteer Corps was a militant Korean independence army founded in Hankou, Hubei, in the Republic of China on 10 October 1938. It is also known as the Korean Volunteers, the Korean Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army and the International Brigade. It operated under General Kim Won-bong as the military organization of the Korean National Revolutionary Party and was classed under the Korean National Vanguard Alliance. Its creation followed arguments by Korean independence activists in China that their scattered secret activities should become a united, open and continuous effort, and Chiang Kai-shek's consent was obtained for an independent Korean unit sponsored by the Kuomintang government. It began with two zones of 42 and 74 members. It was later incorporated into the Korean Liberation Army.
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was a militant Korean independence activist army founded in Hankou, Hubei, Republic of China on October 10, 1938.
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was a militant Korean independence activist army founded in Hankou, Hubei, Republic of China on October 10, 1938.
Fought In: Second Sino-Japanese War, Activities
fought against the Japanese army in mainland China.
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