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| 1922, May |
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| After returning to Korea from China earlier in the year, Yi Kwang-su published his essay “A Treatise on National Reconstruction” in the popular magazine Creation. It described a cultural nationalist agenda. | 1 |
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| Nov |
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The Society for the Establishment of a National University was founded, and a fund-raising drive was instituted. The Japanese soon proclaimed their intention to build Keij Imperial University by 1926, which sapped the energies behind the Korean movement. | 2 |
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| Dec.–1924 |
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The Korean production movement was launched as a means of developing a self-sufficient national economy. Among its leaders were Yi S ng-hun, Cho Man-sik (b. 1882, Korea's Gandhi, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Korean Production in July 1920), Yi Kwang-su, and Y m T'ae-jin. They encouraged all Koreans to buy only domestic products. | 3 |
| Numerous modern novels were published in the 1920s. Among the more famous writers of the day were Kim Tong-in (1900–51), Ym Sang-sp (1897–1963), Han Yong-un (1879–1944), and Yi Pyng-gi (1892–1968). The 1920s are generally considered a period of cultural renaissance, though many leftist publications were censored or closed down by the Japanese police. | 4 |
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| 1923, Sept. 1 |
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| Following the Great Kant Earthquake, which leveled the Tokyo area, several thousand Koreans living in Japan were murdered by xenophobic Japanese. | 5 |
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