History Characters / MTNOKorea

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[[folder: General Tropes]]

* VastBureaucracy: Chōsen is practically run by the Japanese civil service. The post of Commissioner is typically reserved for bureaucrats from the Ministry of Home Affairs, and different departments in Chōsen's Government Office are organized into opposing cliques with some type of connection to their parent Ministries in the home islands. Needless to say, this has made the colonial administration rather inefficient when it comes to actually getting things done.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: When the Rice Crisis leads to an investigation into missing government funds, the police uncover a massive corruption scheme involving Commissioner Ibuki, the Ministry of Finance, the Mitsui Zaibatsu, and various public figures in Mainland Japan.

* ButtMonkey: To say the last century has been terrible for Korea is an understatement. Not only was it victim to a brutal assimilation program by the Japanese, but it also faced a brief war in the 1980s, a period of ruthless military repression, and by MTNO's timeframe, it struggles with corruption and a backward administrative apparatus.

* EmergencyAuthority: In the path where the nationalists are elected and China falls into civil war, Japan enacts Government Ordinance No. 194, granting the colonial administration extraordinary powers to suppress dissent and keep the colony in order.

* TheAssimilator: The Japanese who rule over Korea have done everything in their power to Japanize the peninsula - everything from cities to provinces and even personal names are in Japanese. Even Korea itself is mostly referred to by its Japanese name; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule Chōsen.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: Applicable to both native Koreans and Japanese settlers.
** Despite being Japanized, the natives (Naejin/Neichijin) still maintain their identity, speaking Korean as a second language and keeping their culture alive behind closed doors, while having Japanese names and speaking Japanese as their first language.
** Despite being ethnically Japanese, the settlers/mainlanders (Naisenjin/Zaisenjin/Chaesŏnin) are culturally distinct from the Japanese who live in the home islands.
* TheFamine: The COVID Recession and Japan's relative economic isolation leads to the Year of Suffering in Korea, where large-scale food shortages occur and some regions face the threat of famine, with the colonial government unable to do anything but distribute what emergency supplies it has and plead the Japanese government for any kind of aid they can provide.
* AllohistoricalAllusion:
** The Japanese-Korean Army, or Chōsen-gun, was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Korean_Army real unit in the Imperial Japanese Army]], which, in our timeline was abolished during the Second World War. In MTNO, since Japan won the war and still controls Korea, the Chōsen-gun still exists. It only differs from its OTL counterpart in that it was reshaped into an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askari Askari]] force during the 1970s, whereas the real Chōsen-gun only began to accept Koreans into their ranks after the 1930s.
** The Ibuki-Mitsui Scandal was loosely based on the real-life [[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/リクルート事件 1988 Recruit Scandal]], in which Bunmei Ibuki was also involved.
** The Cholla Uprising was this timeline's direct equivalent of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising Gwangju Uprising]]. Only in this timeline, Koreans fought for independence rather than democracy and the uprising managed to spread all over Southern Jeolla before it was put down by the Japanese.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Bunmei Ibuki's bio [[{{Implied}} implies]] that the Ibuki-Mitsui Scandal was engineered and carefully exposed by the Japanese government in tandem with Home Affairs bureaucrats to destroy the Ministry of Finance's monopoly of power over the Government Office.
* {{Irony}}: Koreans refer to their food crisis as the "Rice Crisis", not because of a lack of rice, but instead because of an abundance of rice and scarcity of other foods.
* MistakenForRacist: The Colonial Government's reaction to the Rice Crisis comes off as incredibly offensive to Koreans, who are assumed to be content with eating nothing but rice.

* RedBaron: Ibuki is nicknamed "Ibu-King" due to his extensive influence over the Ministry of Finance.
* {{Blackmail}}: Ibuki used blackmail as one of the methods to keep his foes quiet.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite being the Commissioner and on board with Japan's assimilation projects, Ibuki is rather lenient as far as Japanese administrators go. This is {{Subverted}} by the fact that Ibuki doesn't have any love for Koreans, and his leniency comes from a place of neglect rather than sympathy.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The civil servants in Chōsen who don't belong to Ibuki's clique despise him, seeing him and the Finance bureaucrats as a bane to the administration. Likewise, Tōkyō also dislikes Ibuki for his grasp over Chōsen and its politics, fearing the prospect of allowing a man like Ibuki to gain so much power right in their backyard.
* AchillesHeel: Despite being a skilled politician and an influential figure in Japanese politics, Ibuki is neglectful of his duties as Commissioner. This ends up coming back to bite him when the Rice Crisis reveals the mishandling of public funds in the colonial administration.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Ibuki believes his downfall was part of a carefully engineered conspiracy from his rivals, despite having no evidence to back it up.

* LetNoCrisisGoToWaste: When the Ibuki-Mitsui Scandal is revealed to the public, Etō and his clique waste no time in working to outmaneuver Ibuki's clique; and secure the colonial administration to themselves.

* {{Cincinnatus}}: If Japan loses the Fourth Sino-Japanese War and the Treaty of Taipei is signed, Etō will step down and organize a peaceful transfer of power to the natives.
* JustFollowingOrders: If the nationalists are elected in Japan and Government Ordinance No. 194 is passed, Etō enforces it regardless of his personal qualms with it, becoming nothing short of [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive]] to the natives until he is ordered to step down.

* WithUsOrAgainstUs: The political atmosphere in Korea rapidly degenerates into this after the Treaty of Taipei, with the peninsula split between Korean nationalists and Pro-Japanese advocates.

* ShortLivedLeadership: While the Political Selection Committee is unable to exercise any executive powers, it's still the highest government body in Korea after the Treaty of Taipei, and is dissolved shortly after the initial appointments.

* TheQuisling: Ikeda collaborates with the Japanese government in their attempts to bypass the Treaty and maintain Tōkyō's control over the Korean peninsula, leading the JKATC and favoring the Pro-Japanese faction within it.
* FashionableEvil: Ikeda's portrait has him wearing a dapper-looking suit.

* HateSink: Ikeda is comically despicable, doing anything he can to stop his political foes while being unnecessarily cruel to those who live under his rule.

* OpportunisticBastard: In his biography, Ikeda is said to have begun collaborating with the Japanese solely to advance his military career and enrich himself.

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[[folder:Chōsen Treaty Government]

[[folder:C.T.G.]]

[[folder:K.N.P.C.]]

[[folder:K.C.R.G.]]

[[folder:PLC-Republic Of Korea]]

->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

%%->'''Ideology:'''

[[folder:PLC-ROK]]

->'''Official Name:''' Chōsen Zantei Minseifu[[labelnote:Tr.]]Transitional Civil Administration of Korea[[/labelnote]]

[[folder:Chōsen Treaty Government]]

->'''Ruling Party:''' N-CKI - Jōyakuha[[note]]Treaty Faction[[/note]]

!!''Akira Shimizu''

->'''Party:''' N-CKI - Jōyakuha[[note]]Treaty Faction[[/note]], Unity Government (Post-war)

->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Akira Shimizu, also known as Jee Man-won, is a man who takes pride in his...career. Born in Gwandong, he joined the Japanese-Korean Army in the 1960s, and during the Great Asian War, his unit was attached to the Railways and Shipping Section, the logistics unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. While he saw no direct fighting during the war, his time in the army provided him with an interest, if not an obsession, in the IJA. Akira took pride in his military identity, and swore that his loyalty would lie in the "greatest army in the world". Thus, he proudly entered the IJA Academy and graduated just in time for the Jeolla Uprising. While he was Korean himself, Akira went where no one would to prove his loyalty to the Japanese. All he saw were maps, numbers, and reports - another successful campaign. Nothing more, nothing less. Unsurprisingly, he was welcomed into Japanese high society as an "Imperial Citizen". In the next decades, he'd settle down and remain close to colonial authorities, even after his 2013 retirement.\\

[[folder:Korean Provisional Government]]

%%->'''Ruling Party:''' Democratic Independence Party

%%->'''Party:''' Democratic Independence Party

[[folder:Korean National People's Committee]]

->'''Ruling Party:''' People's National Liberation Front

->'''Party:''' People's National Liberation Front, People's Labor Party - Old Left (Post-war)

[[folder:Korean Central Revolutionary Government]]

->'''Ruling Party:''' Communist Party of Korea - Guerilla Faction

!!''Jang Song-thaek''

->'''Party:''' Communist Party of Korea - Guerilla Faction

->'''Party:''' N-CKI - Jōyakuha[[note]]Treaty Faction[[/note]], Unity Government (Post-unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Oligarchy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]], Corporatism[[note]]Fascism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Chōsen Assimilation & Friendship Society, Imperial Emergency Administration (Post-unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Civilian Dictatorship[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Colonial Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Chōsen Reform Association, UCP - Centrists (Post-unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]], Controlled Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Post-unification)
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Sakurako Takagi, or Park Geun-hye, was born into a family of collaborators. Her father, Takagi, was a high-ranking officer in the Manchukuo and later Kwantung Armies. Her father saw combat from the Second World War up to the Great Asian War, when he finally retired from military life. She spent her formative years in Keijō with her mother, where she was raised in a conservative environment. Her father was well-rewarded for his collaboration, and Sakurako earned a scholarship to the Osaka University. She would only return to Korea for good in 1996, after her father's passing.\\\

->'''Party:''' Chōsen Business Federation, [=AdminCom=] - Keijō Arrangement (Post-unification)

->'''Ideology:''' Provisional Government[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]], National Liberalism[[note]]Liberalism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

%%->'''Party:'''
->'''Ideology:''' Civilian Dictatorship[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

->'''Party:''' People's National Liberation Front, People's Labor Party - Old Left (Post-unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Revolutionary Front[[note]]Socialism[[/note]], Left-Wing Nationalism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Revolutionary Workers' Party (New Left Faction), Democratic United Front (Revolutionary Workers' Party) (Post-unification)

->'''Ideology:''' Christian Conservatism[[note]]Conservatism[[/note]], Theocratic Democracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Salvation Government, KCF - Fundamentalists (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Revolutionary Interim Government, Socialist Workers' Party (Post-unification)
->'''Ideology:''' Syndicalism[[note]]Socialism[[/note]], Left-Libertarianism (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Korean National Rejuvenation Movement, KNP - Orthodox (Post-unification)

!!''Ch'on'go''
->'''Role:''' Head of State (No assassinated)
->'''Party:''' Pan-National Organization for the Resurrection of the Korean Minjok
->'''Ideology:''' National Mysticism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
%%->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]][[/labelnote]]
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->'''Ideology:''' National Communism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], Kimilsungism[[note]]Communism[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Communist Party of Korea - Bureaucratic Faction, Communist Party of Korea - Moderates (Post-unification)

->'''Party:''' Communist Party of Korea - Military Faction, Communist Party of Korea - Byungjin[[note]]Parallel Development[[/note]] (Post-unification)

->'''Ruling Party:''' Kenchō - Kakuryōha

->'''Party:''' Kenchō - Kakuryōha

[[folder:Kōgen Zensen Shireibu]]
->'''Official Name:''' Kōgen Zensen Shireibu[[labelnote:Tr.]]Chōsen Defense Force Eastern Headquarters[[/labelnote]]
->'''Ruling Party:''' Chōsengun Shireibu
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

!!''Yūsuke Kanei''
->'''Korean Name:''' Kim Yongu

->'''Party:''' Chōsengun Shireibu
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Yūsuke Kanei, or Kim Yongu, was born in Seishū, but raised in Kōshū. His military career began when he volunteered to join the Chosen-gun. Growing up in the Emergency Period, There weren't many choices for young Koreans like him. Yūsuke had no love for the Japanese, but he chose to serve them and live an easy life over struggling to make ends meet.\\\
As he climbed up the chain, Yūsuke stood out from his colleagues. He was distant from politics despite being a careerist and was a natural leader, one who cared for the soldiers under his command. On top of that, Yūsuke remained loyal to his superiors no matter what. After the treaty was signed, Yūsuke was appointed to command the Chōsen-gun, having occupied the post of chief of staff in the past years. He worked with the JKATC to draft plans to reorganize the Chosen-gun, plans that were left dead in the water. Yūsuke soon found himself fighting in what was a civil war in all but name, leading the army against the rebellion. As always, he obeyed, even when the brutality of his peers made his stomach churn.\\\
For long, Yūsuke questioned his values. But now, they are being tested. To the north, the communists threaten to overrun him. To the south, Murata's cowards demand his sword. And day after day, he questions the motives and capacity of his new superiors in the west. For the first time, Yūsuke has to act on his own. [[red:If not, he'll be devoured by wolves.]][[/labelnote]]

[[folder:Taihakusan Kinkyū Shireibu]]
->'''Official Name:''' Taihakusan Kinkyū Shireibu[[labelnote:Tr.]]Chōsen-Gun First Area Army[[/labelnote]]
->'''Ruling Party:''' Dai Rokujūnigun Shireibu
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]

!!''Haruki Murata''

->'''Party:''' Dai Rokujūnigun Shireibu
->'''Ideology:''' Ultramilitarism[[note]]Ultranationalism[[/note]]
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Once a right-wing student activist, Haruki Murata was one of many patriots who volunteered to join the Imperial Japanese Army during the Great Asian War. Unlike his peers, Murata wasn't prepared for military life. He smuggled vinyls of American rock songs and failed to carry out his chores, facing constant punishments. But he pushed through, and the war straightened him out. In the following years, Murata stayed in the IJA, choosing to make a career out of military life. After graduating from the IJA Academy in 1981, he was sent into the newly-formed 62nd Army, fighting against Korean insurgents during the 1980s.\\\
While Murata's military performance was mediocre, he had a mind for politics. He became a quiet supporter of reactionary elements in Japanese politics. After said reactionaries brought Japan into a deadly war with China, Murata was conveniently promoted to command the 62nd Army, organizing counter-insurgency operations with the Chosen-gun. But as always, things continued to crumble around him. And the Treaty of Taipei was the last straw. When the chain of command collapsed during the Japanese Civil War, Murata became a concern to the Committee. After all, he had control over the IJA Forces left in Korea. His loyalty was fleeting, only bound by the threat of a common foe. But now, the JKATC is dead. Siding with the rogues in Fuzan, Murata will lead the 62nd into the mountains once again - [[red:this time, in a battle for victory or death.]][[/labelnote]]

[[folder:[=KdN=]-Friedenmission in Korea]]
->'''Official Name:''' [=KdN=]-Friedenmission in Korea[[labelnote:Tr.]][=KdN=]-Peace Mission in Korea[[/labelnote]]
->'''Ruling Party:''' Oberkommando der Korea-Friedensmission[[note]]High Command of the Peace Mission in Korea[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Peacekeeping Mandate[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

!!''Ingo Gerhartz''

->'''Party:''' Oberkommando der Korea-Friedensmission[[note]]High Command of the Peace Mission in Korea[[/note]]
->'''Ideology:''' Peacekeeping Mandate[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

Leader of the [=KdN=] intervention in Korea.

!!''Kyōsuke Ugawa''
->'''Korean Name:''' Chōng Kyōngt'aek
->'''Role:''' President of the J-KATC[[note]]Head of State[[/note]] (Post-unification)
->'''Party:''' Japan-Korean Administral Transition Committee - Preliminary Administration
%%->'''Ideology:'''
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]Kyōsuke Ugawa, or Chong Kyōngt'aek, was born to a family of collaborators. His father, Jun'taek, was a beneficiary of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, and had built up modest wealth through his mining operations in the Korean north. Yet, Kyōsuke wasn't interested in following in his father's footsteps. Instead, after graduating from the Keijo Imperial University, he would enter into public life as a civil servant.\\
At first, it wasn't easy. Back in those days, Koreans were given the lowest bureaucratic positions, while the top was reserved for Japanese businessmen, politicians, and servicemen. Yet, Kyōsuke worked hard - using his father's connections and a bit of his own dirty dealings. Against all odds, he became a minister for the Governorate-General in the 2010s. For most of his life, Kyōsuke believed Japan's colonization of Korea was beneficial. After all, he he was proof of it. A perfect "Imperial Citizen", an assimilated Korean who believed in Japan's "Asian Mission" and worked hard for the Empire. If all Koreans were like him, surely they'd be regarded as worthy.\\
Even after the KdN intervened, the colonial order was preserved, and they needed men like Kyōsuke. Men who had years of experience to govern and were smart enough to know how to line their pockets. Men who are only there to profit off of false promises and save their hides from justice. [[red:Men like him will be the ones to rule Korea. And for now, the land of the morning calm drifts off to sleep...]][[/labelnote]]
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!! KPG Breakaways

[[folder:May 18 Revolutionary Organization]]
->'''Official Name:''' May 18 Revolutionary Organization
->'''Ruling Party:''' May 18 Revolutionary Organization
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

!!''Kang Ch'ol''

->'''Party:''' May 18 Revolutionary Organization
->'''Ideology:''' Social Nationalism[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]While petty-bourgeois ideologues search for their Kodang, the far left has already found their Kim Il-sung. As a student activist, Kim Yonghwan grew disillusioned with Minjung's "national-reformism" and turned to Marxism. It was at this time that he took up his pseudonym; "Kang Ch'ol", meaning steel. At the turn of the century, however, Kang Ch'ol's views changed. Having spent the last twenty years active in underground circles, he saw that his comrades lacked a concise strategy for revolution. Searching for an answer, he spent ten years touring and studying socialist states, while diving deep into theoretical works. The result was "Minhyok Theory" - Korea could only see real socialism after a period of state-guided "national development", assuming the people have freed themselves via a guerrilla war. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't able to put this theory into practice. Or that was the case, until now. With the independence war in full swing, the American puppets in Kwangju sought to exclude the "radical left" from their government. Seeing an opportunity, Kang Ch'ol attracted a following of disillusioned communists and idealistic students. With Soviet backing, they formed the [=M18RO=], Setting up a guerrilla base in the Sopaek Mountains. The guerrillas soon hatched a bold plan to murder the leaders of the KPG, hoping to create a spark for a larger insurgency. Against all odds, it succeeded. As the KPG implodes, Kang Ch'ol's guerrillas take up arms, ready to save the fatherland from American imperialism and Japanese exploitation.[[/labelnote]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Honam Mutiny]]
%%->'''Official Name:'''
->'''Ruling Party:''' Korean Liberation Army
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]

!!''I Pyongnok''
->'''Role:''' General of the KLA, Head of State
->'''Party:''' Korean Liberation Army
->'''Ideology:''' Stratocracy[[note]]Paternalism[[/note]]
->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]]No one thought the bearer of the torch of freedom would wear a military uniform.\\
Despite being born in the anti-Japanese Southwest, Pyongnok did not share his neighbors' views at first. He enthusiastically signed up to join the Chosen-gun, and believed in Japan's Pan-Asian mission. But the events of the Spring of 1980 changed it all. At the time of the Cholla Uprising, Pyongnok was studying at a military academy in Keijō, and saw no combat. But he heard stories from his relatives, about the horrors of the IJA's violent repression. When Pyongnok saw the photos and the aftermath himself, he felt a deep regret that would carry him for the rest of his life.\\
While Pyongnok retired from active duty in 2013, he was recalled into service in 2017 and was stationed in Kwangju for the next four years. As Japan began to collapse, so too did the Governorate - and Kwangju was the first city to revolt. And this time, Pyongnok would not be complacent. Instead of crushing it, he joined the uprising, and Kwangju fell with no carnage. Pyongnok led the reorganized KLA, fighting hard. But it was all for naught. The KPG lies in tatters, torn between an opportunistic autocrat and communist extremists. I and the comrades under his command knew they had to take matters into their own hands. Now, General Pyongnok leads a mutiny, to depose the Chairman and ensure the founding ideals of the KPG won't be suffocated by the immense darkness that surrounds them. After all, if no man is willing to fight against injustice and tyranny, then who else will?[[/labelnote]]

%%!! KNPC Breakaways

%%[[folder:Pan-National Organization]]
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%%[[folder:Pyongyang Anarchy]]
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%%[[folder:Independent Patriotic Forces]]
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%%[[folder:Free Korean People's Volunteer Corps]]
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!! KCRG Breakaways

[[folder:Chongjin Government]]
->'''Official Name:''' Chongjin Government
->'''Ruling Party:''' Pisangjongbu - Riuidodang
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]

!!''Ri Son'gwon''

->'''Party:''' Pisangjongbu - Riuidodang
->'''Ideology:''' Interim Government[[note]]Despotism[[/note]]
%%->'''Biography''' [[labelnote:Click to show]][[/labelnote]]
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%%[[folder:Hamgyong People's Republic]]
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%%[[folder:Chonddist Patriotic Revolutionary Movement]]
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->'''Party:''' Pan-National Organization for the Ressurection of the Korean Minjok

->'''Ideology:''' National Communism[[note]]Communism[[/note]], Kimilsungism[[note]]Communism[[/note]]