Editing March First Movement (section)

=== North Korea ===
[[File:Kim Il Sung Our Construction.png|thumb|[[Kim Il Sung]] speaking at the first public celebration of the March First Movement in [[Soviet Civil Administration|northern Korea]] in 1946.<ref>{{Citation |last=이 |first=명자 |script-title=ko:우리의 건설 (우리의 建設) |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]] |url=https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0074406 |access-date=2024-05-03 |publisher=[[Academy of Korean Studies]] |language=ko |archive-date=December 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213025339/https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0074406 |url-status=live }}</ref> A ''taegeukgi'' flag is flying above Kim; both the north and south used the design from 1945 to 1948.<ref name="Tertitskiy2015">{{Cite web |last=Tertitskiy |first=Fyodor |date=20 June 2014 |title=Kim Tu Bong and the Flag of Great Extremes |url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=11993&cataId=nk03600 |access-date=10 August 2016 |work=[[Daily NK]] |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823073142/http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03600&num=11993 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
In 1946, the [[Provisional People's Committee of North Korea]] made the occasion a national holiday. This later changed; the holiday was renamed to "The People's Anti-Japanese Uprising Memorial Day" ({{Korean|hangul=반일인민봉기기념일|labels=no}}) and demoted from the status of national holiday.{{Sfn|최|2009|pp=227–228|p=}} Commemorations are reportedly mostly central, with few local celebrations. The events are geared towards inciting anti-American and anti-Japanese sentiment.<ref name="Kim 1997" /><ref name="DailyNK 2006" />

Before the division of Korea, the ''[[taegeukgi]]'' flag and [[Aegukga]] anthem were widely associated with commemorations of the movement, but over time, these disappeared in both North Korean commemorations and historical writings on the movement.{{Sfn|최|2009|pp=229–230|p=}} Choe theorizes that this is the result of these symbols becoming more associated with right-leaning Koreans over time.{{Sfn|최|2009|pp=229–230|p=}}